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Traditional African religions in South African law
2022Since colonial times, traditional African religions have been misunderstood and misrepresented. Victims of the prejudice of Christian dogma, they have been said to be nothing more than magic and superstition, or at best mere ancestor worship. South Africa’s new constitutional order, however, with its celebration of diversity and its guarantee of equal ...
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The invention of ‘African Traditional Religion’
Religion, 1990(1990). The invention of ‘African Traditional Religion’. Religion: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 339-353.
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Images of traditional African religions in surveys of world religions
Religion, 1990[Genuine] knowledge of another culture is possible [but] the student must feel that he or she is answerable to and in uncoercive contact with the culture and the people being studied. [In the past], most of what the West knew about the non-Western world it knew in the framework of colonialism; the European scholar therefore approached his subject from ...
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African Traditional Religion and Violence
2013Abstract This chapter analyzes a wide range of African customs and legends. It demonstrates that African traditional religion offers notions of a thriving spirit world which provides “sacred warriors” ritualized protections and martial enhancements when defense of community is urgent.
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African Traditional Religion and African Philosophy
2022Alloy S. Ihuah, Zaato M. Nor
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The Afterlife in African Traditional Religion
Journal for the Academic Study of ReligionThis article explores the nature of the afterlife in African Traditional Religion. According to this belief, when a person dies, their spirit transitions to become a member of the living dead for about five generations after which they become a nameless ghost and their personal identity is lost.
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The Historical Study of African Traditional Religions
1999Abstract Until recently, most studios of African religions have concentrated on various aspects of beliefs and practices while paying little attention to their historical development, When scholars have considered the history of religions in Africa, they have tended to focus on lslam and Christianity and to restrict their interest in ...
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