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Traditional African religions in South African law

2022
Since 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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Jewish tradition and African religion

Patterns of Prejudice, 1982
The Old Testament has striking similarities with traditional African culture. If African Christians understood its importance more, the process of indigenization would be made easier.
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Women in African Traditional Religions

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1976
In approaching the topic of women in African traditional religions, several methodological issues immediately arise: how to define religion, how to sample religious systems, and how to cope with fragmentary information. Each of these issues demands a rather arbitrary decision which implies that any analysis based upon such decisions must be considered ...
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African Traditional Religion and Violence

2013
Abstract 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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Aspects of African Traditional Religion

Sociological Analysis, 1976
Three words in the title call for comment: African, traditional and religion. Africa, a vast continent, at least three times the size of the U.S.A., presents an abundance and pluralism of cultures and peoples. Homo Africanus is a multiheaded hydra which today manifests itself as a negroid or an Arab or even a Caucasian.
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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 African Philosophy

2022
Alloy S. Ihuah, Zaato M. Nor
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African Traditional Religion

African Studies Review, 1970
Darrell L. Reeck, Noel Q. King
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The Afterlife in African Traditional Religion

Journal for the Academic Study of Religion
This 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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African Traditional Religion: a Guide to the Study

Uchenie zapiski Instituta Afriki RAN
Review of the book: Aderibigbe I., Falola T. (Eds). (2022). The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
T.M. Gavristova, A.V. Milto
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