When Western missionaries arrived in Africa in the 19th century, they disallowed the use of native musical instruments in ...

Traditional African spirituality is practiced by over 50 million people who follow one of many tribal and regional religions. While each maintains their own unique identity, African religions ...

In front of a packed Gasson 305 Monday night, Rev. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, S.J, spoke about Africa’s complex religious heritage: a confluence of traditional African spirituality, Christianity, and ...

The sacred role of culture in African religion -- African culture and western attitudes toward African religion -- African tradition and the culture of religion -- African culture and the philosophy ...

Zamani: A Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2024), pp. 314-338 (26 pages) Three main religious traditions—indigenous African beliefs and practices (African religion), ...

The former Catholic priest explained that he was fascinated by the traditional African spirituality and the art of rainmaking. Catholic priest quits, embraces traditional religion after witnessing ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Hugh Trevor-Roper—historian, essayist, master of Peterhouse at the University of ...

Let me start with a declaration from start: I am a Pentecostal Christian who has often been curious about the trajectory of both mainstream Christianity (be it evangelical or Pentecostal) and African ...

This paper is an attempt to show how logically acceptable (or rational) belief in Traditional Akan religion is. The attempt is necessitated by the tendency by some scholars to (mis) treat all ...

Dr Echezona Obiagbaosogu, a former Catholic priest of 17 years, has resigned from his priesthood to embrace the African traditional religion. Obiagbaosogu made the decision after spending several ...