Site on "philosophy which focuses on Africa, philosophy done in Africa,
and philosophy that is part of the traditional conversation among African
philosophers." Includes links to full text documents, reading lists,
course syllabi, African philosophers,
conferences, journals, topics within African philosophy, etc. Prof. Janz is with
the Philosophy Dept., Augustana University College, Alberta, CANADA. http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/
Full text articles and photographs on "(1) popular Islam in North
Africa; (2) historical African religion in South Central Africa; (3) Christian
churches in South Central and Southern Africa; (4) historical African religion
in West Africa; (5) historical African religion in Southern Africa..." Includes the sangoma mediumistic cult of Southern Africa: limitations and potential of an interpretation in terms of commodification," and "Witchcraft in modern Africa as virtualised boundary conditions of the kinship order." Has
a forum on "on anthropological and intercultural-philosophical aspects
of African religion." See also his site Wim
van Binsbergen. van Binsbergen is a Professor at Erasmus University,
Rotterdam and a certified spirit medium/ diviner/ priest in the sangoma tradition
of Southern Africa. [KF] http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/
In English, French and Italian. "Monthly e-magazine on the invisible
Africa." Edited by CERFE - Standing Commettee for Africa of Gruppo CERFE,
Rome, Italy. Full text articles online. Issue no. 3 has articles on traditional
religion. [KF] http://www.africansocieties.org
Isizoh's site has full-text articles such as "The
Role of Women in African Traditional Religion" by John Mbiti, "Crime & African
Traditional Religion" by S.A. Adewale, articles on Christianity, Islam
and African religions and a 49 page bibliography of books and articles.
http://afrikaworld.net/afrel/
Has the full text of Atoms
and Ancestors, by Frederick B. Welbourn (1968) which Prof. Hexham
cites as "a classic introduction to African religions." Also
has Welbourn's "A Sacral Kingship in Buganda? An Essay in the Meaning
of 'Religion," his "Towards a Definition of Religion," and "An
Empirical Approach to Ghosts." Also has:
"Christian
Responses to Witchcraft and Sorcery" by Stephen Hayes, originally published
in Missionalia, Vol 23, No 3, Nov 1995 and
information about Isiah
Shembe, the Zulu prophet and founder of an independent church. The web
site is part of Irving Hexham's Nurel Home Page.
Hexham isProfessor, Department of Religious Studies, University
of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nurelweb/africa.html
In French. Has full text articles on Afro-Latin American religions. Journal "fondée en 1956 sous l’égide du CNRS." Published by Éditions de l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales / Éditions de l’EHESS. Its purpose is "promouvoir une perspective comparative, élargie à toutes les religions, et à toutes les aires culturelles." http://assr.revues.org/
National profiles for each country. Can compare two countries. Need to use statistifcal programs (SPSS, Stata) to use some data files. Use Quick Lists to compare nations, regions, government and religion. International maps (African continent, countries). Some rankings are puzzling - assigning high religious persecution to Uganda when a U.S. State Dept 2011 report says " There were no reports of societal abuses or discrimination based on religious affiliation" in Uganda. Based at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, [KF] http://www.thearda.com/
Page on the religious practice of Ifa. By Philip Neimark, an American
businessman in Bloomington, IN, for the "dissemination of information
regarding Ifa and Orisa worship to interested Westerners". Associated
with the Imole Oluwa Institute of Nigeria. http://www.ifafoundation.org/
Has full-text sources for African history arranged by topics. Includes
Islam in Africa, ancient Egyptian religion, Ethiopia and Christianity, African
traditional religion. Maintained by Paul
Halsall, Fordham University. [KF] http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/africa/africasbook.html
"...founded in 1967 by Andrew Walls. In 1985 the editorship was taken
over by Adrian Hastings, who retired in 1999. It is interested in all religious
traditions and all their forms, in every part of Africa,..." Libraries
pay $172 a year. Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands.
http://www.brill.nl/product_id7322.htm
Table of contents only. Volume 23, Number 1, February 1999 was a Special
Issue: Africans Meeting Missionaries, edited by Jean Landau and Derek Peterson,
with papers presented at a conference at the University of Minnesota in 1997.
Pub. by Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0022-4227
Exhibition of "African artifacts created to communicate with
ancestors, spirits, and gods in order to obtain insight into human quandaries. "Essay
by Professor John Pemberton III, scholar of African religions, explores
five regional traditions and their divination practices.
He has selected the Azande, Luba and Songye, Yaka, Yoruba,
and Malagasy models
of divination. Extensive commentary on figures illustrated. Detailed maps
showing locations of the cultures. Bibliography. [KF] http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/oracle/
"The Yoruba live in Nigeria and the Republic of Benin
and are responsible for one of Africa's oldest and most dynamic artistic
traditions. Its origins are traced to the ancient city-state of Ile-Ife,
famous for exquisitely refined and naturalistic sculptural forms in terracotta
and stone created before A.D. 1100." Articles on oriki (praise
poetry), a
Yoruba creation story; excerpts from the film Efe/Gelede Ceremonies
among the Western Yoruba,
by Henry John Drewal; Map. [KF] http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/YORUBA/HTM/main_fs.htm
A rich resource. "interviews with over 300 people who live
in mountain and highland regions round the world. Their testimonies offer
a personal perspective on change and development." To access the interviews,
one needs to register and fill out a questionnaire. Interviews from Lesotho,
Kenya, Ethiopia, gathered by the Oral Testimony Programme of the Panos
Institute. Topics discussed include agriculture, community, conflict, culture,
development, economics, education, employment, environment, family life,
festivals, food security, forestry, gender, health, history, identity, industry,
crime, land, migration, politics, spiritual beliefs, tourism, etc. [KF] http://www.mountainvoices.org/
"To what extent do the politicians in Africa use the cultural symbols
as a tool for
construction of political realities in African countries?" "Malawi
is identified as a case study. Interconnections between the cultural traditions
in Malawi
and the politics in Malawi are identified and analyzed."
The first 25 pages are free online in .pdf format. Or pay $6 thru credit
card to access the entire book online. The book is also in print form from
uPublish.com http://www.upublish.com/books/muyebe.htm
"A Non-Profit Religious Organization for the promotion of African
Traditional Religions." "Those Traditional Religions of (largely)
West Africa and the diaspora, include (but are not limited to) Yeveh Vodoun,
Mami Wata, Ifa'Orisha, Palo Mayombe, Asante, Akan, Candomble, Lucumi, Haitian
Vodou, New America Vodou and Afro-Santeria." The Founder & President
is Mamaissii Vivian Dansi Hounon, M.Ed. Based in Martinez, Georgia, US. http://www.mamiwata.com/OATH.html
Religious profiles for 54 African countries. 22 maps show the predominant religion, the main minority religion, Christianity, Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Sunnis, Shia and other branches of Islam, traditional religions, Baha'i, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Atheism, religious freedom, religion and conflict, interesting religious facts, religious change. Includes references. Completed 2007 by Eugene Adogla, funded by a Stanford University grant. http://www.religiouslyremapped.info/
Full text of the book published by the University of California
Press (Berkeley). "...portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community
in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers,...These women... are far from powerless among the peasants and migrant laborers who
work the land in this plantation economy." http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6t1nb4hz/
Biographical information about Dr. Some and his book, "Of Water
and the Spirit" on the site of "Religious
Traditions of the African Diaspora" a course by Dr. Gloria H.
Dickinson at the College of New Jersey, Ewing, N.J. http://dickinsg.intrasun.tcnj.edu/diaspora/water.html
In French. Published by EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). "La revue Systèmes de pensée en Afrique noire a pour objectif de faire connaître le résultat des recherches collectives menées par le CEMAf-Ivry sur des thèmes majeurs de l’anthropologie religieuse." Article abstracts in French and English. [KF] http://www.cemaf.cnrs.fr/article.php3?id_article=112
Site for the TV program. Site does not work in some older browsers. Includes
a profile of Olaudah Equiano, an essay on Religion
in Africa, and a timeline beginning with 1526: the first North American
slave revolt. Estimated Number of Africans Exported By Region, Estimated
Number of Africans, Imported to the Americas,1451-1870. "a co-production
of Blackside Inc. and The Faith Project, Inc. in association with the Independent
Television Service. [KF] http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/
"West African Dahomean Vodoun, is the Mother from which all the syncretic
forms of Vodoun/Voodoo practiced in the New World, brought over during slavery
is derived." Has audio files, information on Mami Wata in West and Central
Africa, the visit of Togolese Mami Wata Priest (Mamaisii) to U.S., a bibliography,
etc.. Maintained by Mamaissii Vivian Dansi Hounon. http://www.mamiwata.com/
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