The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their sustainability and relevance for the future, this volume is an essential resource for knowledge and understanding of African Traditional religions in the global space of religious traditions. Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe is Professor of Religion and African studies. He is currently Associate Director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USA. Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

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Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe is Professor of Religion and African studies. He is currently Associate Director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USA. Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.

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i. Forward:- Elias Kifon Bongma, ( The Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and Professor of Religion at Rice University in Houston, Texas., USA)ii. Introduction:- Toyin Falola (University of Texas at Austin, USA & Ibigbolade Aderibigbe (University of Georgia, Athens, USA) Part One: Basic or Essential Features of African Religion Chapter One: "African Religions or African Religion"Ibigbolade Aderibigbe University of Georgia USAChapter Two: "Nature and Structure"Ibigbolade Aderibigbe University of Georgia, USAChapter Three: "Metaphysical and ontological concepts" Adamu Dauda, Gombe State University, NigeriaChapter Four: "Concept and Worship of the Supreme Being"Dorothy Nguemo Afaor, Benue State University, NigeriaChapter Five "Beliefs and Veneration of Divinities"Lydia Akande University of Ilorin, NigeriaChapter Six: "Beliefs and Appropriations of Spirits"Atinuke Okunade, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, NigeriaChapter Seven: "Beliefs and Veneration of Ancestors"Lydia Akande, University of Ilorin, NigeriaChapter Eight: "Beliefs and Practices of Magic and Medicine"Kelvin Onongha, Adventist University of Kenya, KenyaChapter Nine: "Myths and Creation of Humans and Universe"Adeoluwa Okunade, University of Port Harcourt, NigeriaChapter Ten: "Liturgy, Traditions, Rituals, Sacrifices and Festivals"Mensah Osei, Clark County District School System, USAChapter Eleven: "Circle of life"Paul Goronga, Zimbabwe Ezekiel University, ZimbabweChapter Twelve: "Death, Burial Rights and the Afterlife"Iyabo Ayodele Omojuwa, University of Lagos, NigeriaChapter Thirteen: "Eschatological and Reincarnation Beliefs" Paul Goronga, Zimbabwe Ezekiel University, ZimbabweChapter fourteen: "Religious leaders- Priests, medicine-professionals and Kings"Oye Laguda Lagos State University, Nigeria Chapter Fifteen: "Concepts of Time and Space" Julius Adesina, Kwara State University, NigeriaChapter Sixteen: "Illnesses and Cures"Kelvin Onongha, Adventist University of Kenya, KenyaChapter Seventeen: "The Sacred and Mundane Spaces"Dimingu Caroline, Zimbabwe Ezekiel University, ZimbabweChapter Eighteen: "Destiny, Determinism and Divination"Adepeju Johnson-Bashua, Lagos State University, NigeriaChapter Nineteen: "Secret Societies- Fraternities, Witches, Wizards and Sorcerers" Mensah Osei, Clark County District School System, USAChapter Twenty: "Women in African Religion- Traditional Societal Setting"Atinuke Okunade, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, NigeriaChapter Twenty-One: "Arts, Music and Aesthetics in African Religion"Adeoluwa Okunade, University of Port Harcourt, NigeriaChapter Twenty-Two: "Oral and None Oral sources of Knowledge in African Religion"Akintunde Akinyemi, University of Florida, USAPart Two: Contemporary Interconnectivities: Contents and DiscontentsChapter Twenty-Three: "Africa Religion and Religious Ethics"Jonathan O. Chimakonan, University of Calabar, NigeriaChapter Twenty-Four: "African Religion, Morality and Society"Joseph Nnaemeka Agbo, Ebonyi State University, NigeriaChapter Twenty- Five: "African Religion and African Philosophy"Francis Adewale Olajide,,Ekiti State University, NigeriaChapter Twenty-Six: "African Religion, Gender Equality and Feminism"Adepeju Johnson-Bashua, Lagos State University, Nigeria Chapter Twenty-Seven: "African Religion and Sexual Orientations- Homosexuality and Trans-Gender"Oye Laguda, Lagos State Univerity, NigeriaChapter Twenty-Eight: "African Religion, Conflict Resolution and Societal Peaceful Co-existence"Edoh Agbbonou, Savana State University, USAChapter Twenty-Nine: "African Religion and Democratic Governance"Abdulganity Olatunji, University of Ilorin NigeriaChapter Thirty: "African Religion and Economic Development"Kwaka Nti, Armstrong State University, USAChapter Thirty-One: "African Religion, Social Justice and Human Rights"Kehinde Olakunle Coker, Lagos State University, NigeriaChapter Thirty-Two: "African Religion and Contemporary Functionalism - Divination"Ibigbolade Aderibigbe, University of Georgia, USAChapter Thirty-Three: "African Religion and Contemporary Functionalism - Medicine"Sarwuan Daniel Shishima, Benue State University, NigeriaChapter Thirty-Four: "African Religion and Contemporary Functionalism - Festivals"Tenson Muyambo., Zimbabwe Ezekiel University, ZimbabweChapter Thirty-Five: "African Religion and Diaspora Transplantations - Nature and Formats"Martina Iyabo Oguntoyinbo-Atere, Adeleke University, NigeriaChapter Thirty- Six: "African Religion and Sustainable Cultural, Social and Economic Dynamics"Joseph Kingsley Adjei, Kennesaw State Univesity, USAChapter Thirty-Seven: "African Religion and sustainability- The New Indigenous Religious Movements"Pius Oyeniran Abioje, University of Ilorin, NigeriaChapter Thirty-Eight: "African Religion and Christianity in Contemporary Global Religious Space" Rotimi Omotoye, University of Ilorin, NigeriaChapter Thirty-Nine: "African Religion and Islam in Contemporary Global Religious space"Sodiq Yushau, Texas Christian University, USAPart Three: On Pedagogy, Research and Foundation/Eminent Scholars/writersChapter Forty: "Outsider and Insider Study of African Religion"Afe Adogame, Princeton Seminary, USAChapter Forty-One: "Codification, Documentation and Transmissions of African Religion Knowledge" Tunde Bewaji, University of West Indies, JamaicaChapter Forty-Two: "Gnostic and Epistemological themes in African Religion"Julius Adekunle,Monmouth University, USAChapter Forty-Three: "African Religion in African Scholarship"Benson Ohihon Igboin, Adekunle Ajasin University, NigeriaChapter Forty-Four: "African Religion in African Diaspora Scholarship"Melenie L. Harris, Texas Christian University, USAChapter Forty-Five: "African Religion in Global Scholarship"Marouan Maha, Pennsylvania University, USA Chapter Forty-Six: "African Religion in the Context of World Religions: Challenges for Scholars and Students"Robert Yaw Owusu, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA Chapter Forty-Seven: "African Religion Scholarship: John Mbiti and Bolaji Idowu" Rotimi Omotoye, University of Ilorin, Nigeria Chapter Forty-Eight: "African Religion Scholarship: Geoffrey Parrinder, Asare Opoku", Sipeyiye Macloud, Midlands State University, ZimbabweChapter Forty-Nine: "African Religion Scholarship: Omosafe Awolalu and A…