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African Traditional Religion

2013
Describing ATR, in the sense of its/their origins, tends to be difficult in that they cannot be traced to any one particular group of people. Africa is not a continent with people sharing common traditions and so the religions of Africa, although they come under the umbrella of traditional religions, are varied in many respects.
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African Traditional Religion

2016
This chapter examines the current situation of African Traditional Religion (ATR), to give an account of the main tenets of the religion and to demonstrate that it is a sensible and truly African response both to God as Creator and to God's creation. The dawn of democracy in a post-colonial and post-apartheid South Africa has brought many changes in ...
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The Christianization of African Traditional Religions

International Review of Mission, 2019
AbstractIn studies of the historical growth and spread of Christianity in Africa, the focus has been too much on Christianizing African social and religious institutions and structures, and not enough on African traditional religion itself, which needs to be addressed by Christianity.
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Tradition and Community in African Religion

Journal of Religion in Africa, 1978
Methodologie des religions: plutot que des categories artificielles importees d'Europe, il faut parler de "tradition" en meme temps que de "communaute" a propos des religions d'Afrique.
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African traditional religions

2018
Religion has been at the centre of recent philosophical debate in Africa for two major reasons. The first is that the answers to many central canonical philosophical questions in precolonial African societies take a religious form. As a result any attempt to construct an African philosophy begs attention to the epistemological and ontological standing ...
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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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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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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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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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