Encyclopedia of African Religion

Features include:

it helps readers grasp the enormity of Africa′s contribution to religious ideas by presenting richly textured concepts of spirituality, ritual, and initiation while simultaneously advancing new theological categories, cosmological narratives, and ways to conceptualize 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 to provide scholars with a baseline for future works.