Anthropological Studies on Religion in Sudan

This chapter brings together a number of pieces of work which anthropologists have written over the years, in the context of Sudanese society. The accounts of religion in anthropological writings on Sudanese communities are generally meagre. The chapter deals with the historical development of anthropological studies on religion in Sudan and the concomitant changes in their areas of concentration, basic questions, theoretical underpinnings, and writers' identities. For the purpose of analysis in this chapter, these anthropological pieces of work are divided into two main periods in the history of Sudan, before and after independence in 1956.