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- Presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars
- Offers a range of perspectives and opinions on African Indigenous religions
- An essential resource for understanding of African Indigenous religions in the global space of religious traditions
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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.
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Basic/Essential Features of African Traditional Religion
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“This impressive book claims to be the “only single volume or Handbook on African Traditional Religion” … . the Handbook’s encyclopedia- level comprehensiveness makes it a substantive and unique contribution with a balance of topical chapters … . The degree to which African religions permeate world culture, via historical dissemination or contemporary diaspora, is a matter to be explored more thoroughly, and volumes such as the Handbook of African Traditional Religion help point the way.” (Blair Alan Gadsby, Nova Religio, Vol. 27 (4), May, 2024)
This is perhaps the most comprehensive book ever put together on African Traditional Religion. Edited by two erudite and astute scholars of African Studies, The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion encompasses possibly all that needs to be known about ATR from traditional origins through modernity and postcoloniality to now with globalization and its features affecting it. This Handbook is a magnum opus and brings together informed scholars of the field from across Africa and the entire globe. Ibigbolade Aderibigbe and Toyin Falola have through their assiduous editorship given the academic world the deep and broad knowledge with which to see African Traditional Religion in its true light. By often placing it beside the foreign religions, especially Christianity and Islam, and delineating its moral and ethical functions, the editors and contributors give indigenous African religion the respect it more than deserves and long overdue in coming.—Tanure Ojaide, Ph.D., Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
This book is a fascinating thematic study of African Religions. The editors and authors demonstrate convincingly the global reality, relevance, and resilience of African religions at a time when some forms of revivalism seek to undermine the vitality of indigenous religions that continues to shape individual and communal values in dialogue with God.
—Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, USA
The book is a vademecum of all that needs to be said, known and argued about concerning African Traditional Religion in and outside the continent. This manual of 46 chapters that promises to remain relevant in the academic discipline for many years to come is hereby recommended for all readers.
—Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran, Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion
Editors: Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, Toyin Falola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89500-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89499-3Published: 21 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89502-0Published: 21 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89500-6Published: 20 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 642
Topics: Comparative Religion, African Culture, African History, African Politics