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“Wikipedia: Serer religion”
“Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer: Essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", KARTHALA Editions (1994), p 54,”
“Wikicommons: Serer religion”
“Keep on [going] and preserve what is left of Seereer culture and religion. You will be lonely in this field but just keep on because the truth must come out.”
“Asante, Molefi Kete; Mazama, Ama; "Encyclopedia of African Religion", SAGE Publications (2008),”
“Emery, Robert E., "Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia", p.52, SAGE Publications (2013), https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ix9zAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q&f=false”
“Thiaw, Laye Issa, Obituary of Professor Issa Laye Thiaw [in] the Seereer Resource Cemtre and Seereer Radio. Published: 11th September 2017) https://www.seereerradio.com/obituary-of-issa-laye-thiaw”
“The laman and his lineage "owned" the first estate in the sense that their ancestrally allied spiritual beings (pangool) inhabited and ensured the well-being of the lamanic estate itself. Serer religion places considerable emphasis on these ancestral spirits, sets of which are associated with each lineage.”
“Pollock, Griselda, Turvey-Sauron, Victoria, "The Sacred and the Feminine: Imagination and Sexual Difference" p.92, I.B.Tauris (2007), https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hC0OpqZzwEUC&pg=PA92#v=onepage&q&f=false”
“Ndiaye, Ousmane Sémou, "Diversité et unicité sérères : l’exemple de la région de Thiès", [in] Éthiopiques, no 54, vol. 7, 2e semestre (1991) http://ethiopiques.refer.sn/spip.php?page=imprimer-article&id_article=1253”
“The oral tradition of the Serer states that they travelled from the Upper Nile to West Africa. One of the reasons Cheikh Anta Diop claimed that the Serer were able to reject Islam, being one of the few African groups in the West African Sahel region to do so successfully, might be because of their strong connection to their ancient religious past.”
“Galvan, Dennis C., "The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal", p.53, University of California Press (2004), ISBN: 9780520929425 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FsLQTePijB4C&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false”
“What is more interesting in terms of the religion of the Serer is that, their burial rites were the same as those of the ancient kings of Ghana and Egypt. The deceased, after an elaborate ceremony, was buried in luxury depending on what was available, laid on a bed, and around him were placed all the usual domestic and ordinary materials, tools, and objects with which he was familiar during life and maybe a rooster to awaken him.”
“Diouf, Babacar Sédikh, "Le Sérère, Paganism Polythéiste ou Religion Monothéiste" [in] Camara, Fatou Kiné (PhD) & Seck, Abdourahmane (PhD), "Secularity and Freedom of Religion in Senegal: Between a Constitutional Rock and a Hard Reality", p 860-61 (PDF - p. 2-3), 3/2010 http://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/do/search/?q=Diouf&start=0&context=4277457”
“Adultery is an acceptable ground for divorce among the Serer and is taken very seriously, Married women guilt of adultery have their hair unplaited, denying them the hairstyle worn by married women to connote their status. An adulterer, male or female, must ask forgiveness of his or her spouse in front of the king or chief, and is not unheard of for them to commit suicide rather than face that humiliation. Although the Serer religion emphasizes reconciliation and punishment of a wrongdoing spouse over divorce, divorce is an option.”
“In deed the Serer religious expression of the encounter with the sacred or accession to the level of possession is not pathological expression of a reaction to class oppression. Rather the traditional energy of the Serer religion breaks through and perverts the Catholic liturgy but to a different end than is problematized by Clement. It is explained and known by emic members of Senegalese society that the Serer culture is one of the cultural universes that have survived in its integrity in Senegal, despite all the waves of other cultures.”
“African religion, seen through the Sereer religion, has most of the traits of a religious trend: it has a theory, latent, but coherent, oriented toward sacred transcendence as source of life, communication and participation. An ethics proposed by the old tradition, with a sense of right and wrong. A popular cult. Places of worship. A corpus of prayers. A mystical life, reserved for initiates. A well-prepared staff, from Pangool [ancestors’ spirits] priests, seers, healers and leaders of religious worship, the Saltigi, not to mention a multitude of celebrants dedicated to family and local cults. A whole life based on the religious experience. It is a true religious path, whose central theme could be formulated as follows: "the divine in man.”