This commentary calls on medical anthropology to become programmatically non-secular. Despite recent anthropological critiques of secularity, within and outside of anthropology, most contemporary medical anthropologists continue to leave deities and religiosity out of their examinations of healing practices, especially in their accounts of biomedicine. Through a critical, relational constructio...

Contrary to some Vhavenḓa poets who recognise Ṅwali and/or Raluvhimba as Jehovah, this article argues that and Jehovah are two distinct deities. It further asserts there is no kinship or continuity between these Although possibilities of being similarities attributes deities, their conceptual distinctions highlight significant incongruities them. in Tshivenḓa traditional religion (TTR) identifi...