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Encyclopedia of African Religion
Two Volume Set
Edited by:
- Molefi Kete Asante - Temple University, United States, Temple University, USA, Associate Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, University of Queensland
- Ama Mazama - Temple University, USA
January 2009 | 920 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
As the first comprehensive work to assemble ideas, concepts, discourses, and extensive essays in this vital area, the Encyclopedia of African Religion explores such topics as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the end of life, the conquest of fear, and the quest for attainment of harmony with nature and other humans. Editors Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama include nearly 500 entries that seek to rediscover the original beauty and majesty of African religion.
Features include:
it helps readers grasp the enormity of Africa's contribution to religious ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation while simultaneously advancing new theological categories, cosmological narratives, and ways to conceptualize ethical behavior
it provides readers with new metaphors, figures of speech, modes of reasoning, etymologies, analogies, and cosmogonies
it reveals the complexity, texture, and rhythms of the African religious tradition to provide scholars with a baseline for future works.
