The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to African Religions (PDF)

Notes on Contributors xi Foreword xix Jacob K. Olupona Acknowledgments xxii Introduction 1 Elias K. Bongmba Part I Methodological Perspectives on African Religions 23 1 Methodological Views on African Religions 25 James L. Cox 2 Philosophy of Religion on African Ways of Believing 41 V.Y. Mudimbe and Susan Mbula Kilonzo 3 Neo-Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism: Perspectives from the Social Sciences 62 Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff 4 Divination in Africa 79 René Devisch 5 Orality, Literature, and African Religions 97 Jonathan A. Draper and Kenneth Mtata 6 African Rituals 112 Laura S. Grillo 7 Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives on African Religions 127 Musa W. Dube 8 Religion and the Environment 140 Edward P. Antonio 9 Christianity in Africa: From African Independent to Pentecostal-Charismatic Churches 153 Birgit Meyer Part II Interpreting Religious Pluralism 171 10 Neo-traditional Religions 173 Marleen de Witte 11 Spirit Possession in Africa 184 Susan J. Rasmussen 12 Christian Missions in Africa 198 Norman Etherington 13 Christianity in Africa 208 David T. Ngong 14 Coptic Christianity 220 Jason R. Zaborowski 15 The Ethiopian Orthodox Church 234 Christine Chaillot 16 African Theology 241 Elias K. Bongmba 17 The Church and Women in Africa 255 Isabel Apawo Phiri 18 Feminist Theologies in Africa 269 Sarojini Nadar 19 Church and Reconciliation 279 Tinyiko Maluleke 20 Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements in Modern Africa 295 Matthews A. Ojo 21 African Initiated Churches in the Diaspora 310 Afe Adogame 22 Islam in Africa 323 Yushau Sodiq 23 Women in Islam: Between Sufi sm and Reform in Senegal 338 Penda Mbow 24 Islam and Modernity 355 Carmen McCain 25 Jihad 365 John H. Hanson 26 Shari'a in Muslim Africa 377 David Cook 27 Hinduism in South Africa 389 P. Pratap Kumar Part III Religion, Culture, and Society 399 28 Religion and Art in Ile-Ife 401 Suzanne Preston Blier 29 Sufi Arts: Engaging Islam through Works of Contemporary Art in Senegal 417 Allen F. Roberts

THE EDITOR

ELIAS KIFON BONGMBA holds the Harry and Hazel Chavanne Chair in Christian Theology and is Professor of Religious Studies at Rice University. He is the author of Facing a Pandemic: The African Church and Crisis of AIDS (2007), The Dialectics of Transformation in Africa (2006), which won the 2007 Frantz Fanon Prize for outstanding work in Caribbean thought, and African Witchcraft and Otherness: A Philosophical and Theological Critique of Intersubjective Relations (2001).

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