"Numerous titles focusing on particular beliefs in Africa exist, including Marcel Griaule’s Conversations with Ogotemmeli, but this one presents an unparallelled exploration of a large number of cultures and experiences. It is each a gateway to deeper exploration and a penetrating resource on its own. That is sure to grow to be the definitive scholarly resource on African religions."
- Library Journal, Starred Evaluation
"Overall, due to its singular focus, reliability, and scope, this encyclopedia will show invaluable the place there's appreciable curiosity in Africa or in different spiritual traditions."
-Library Journal
As the first comprehensive work to assemble ideas, ideas, discourses, and in depth essays on this very important area, the Encyclopedia of African Faith explores such subjects as deities and divinities, the nature of humanity, the top of life, the conquest of concern, and the hunt for attainment of harmony with nature and different 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
· Affords the perfect illustration to date of the African response to the sacred
· Helps readers grasp the enormity of Africa’s contribution to spiritual ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation whereas concurrently advancing new theological classes, cosmological narratives, and methods to conceptualize ethical habits
· Offers readers with new metaphors, figures of speech, modes of reasoning, etymologies, analogies, and cosmogonies
· Reveals the complexity, texture, and rhythms of the African spiritual custom to supply scholars with a baseline for future works
The Encyclopedia of African Faith is meant for undergraduate and graduate college students in fields similar to Religion, Africana Research, Sociology, and Philosophy.
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