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Comprehensive, up-to-date, reflecting the highest standards in scholarship yet intended for a wide range of readers, the Encyclopedia also looks outward beyond Christianity, considering other world religions and philosophies as it paints the overall religious and sociocultural picture in which the Christianity finds itself.
Describing Christianity in its global context, the Encyclopedia is a fully international work, with articles written by scholars from many countries and cultural backgrounds. Separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries present both the history and the current situation of the Christian faith in all its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world.
Features and benefits:
- Comprehensive, authoritative, up to date
- Both historical and contemporary in scope
- Scholarly yet accessible to general readers
- More than 1,700 articles
- Based on the original five volume print edition
- Global context, separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries
Encyclopedia of Christianity Online is also available in print.
Comprehensive, up-to-date, reflecting the highest standards in scholarship yet intended for a wide range of readers, the Encyclopedia also looks outward beyond Christianity, considering other world religions and philosophies as it paints the overall religious and sociocultural picture in which the Christianity finds itself.
Describing Christianity in its global context, the Encyclopedia is a fully international work, with articles written by scholars from many countries and cultural backgrounds. Separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries present both the history and the current situation of the Christian faith in all its rich spiritual and theological diversity around the world.
Features and benefits:
- Comprehensive, authoritative, up to date
- Both historical and contemporary in scope
- Scholarly yet accessible to general readers
- More than 1,700 articles
- Based on the original five volume print edition
- Global context, separate articles for every continent and for over 170 countries
Encyclopedia of Christianity Online is also available in print.
Abstract
In this contribution the author firsts gives a short survey of elements in African Traditional Religion. Although African Traditional Religion manifests itself variously all over the sub-Sa-haran continent, they do share some common characteristics. The author describes the oral nature of African traditions, their idea of the Creator, spiritual beings, and mystical powers, living in a moral community, the celebration of life, and the attitude towards other religions. Second, he describes the encounter with Islam by people in traditional African Religions, who had been influenced by Christianity and/or have become church members. Because there are almost no sources the author describes this encounter from his own experiences and from what he learned later from his rich experience. After a primary sketch he goes into specific subjects: belief in God, spirits and the departed, and the “co-existence and competi-tion” between African Religion and Islam.