As the first comprehensive work tassemble 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 trediscover the original beauty and majesty of African religion
Features include:
it helps readers grasp the enormity of Africas contribution treligious ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation while simultaneously advancing new theological categories, cosmological narratives, and ways tconceptualize 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 tprovide scholars with a baseline for future works
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