A Vague Appeal. In Liberia, British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government ...

"A lot of different West African religions went into the formation of Candomble. Primarily though, the most important influence was from the Yoruba peoples that now occupy the Southwest coastal area ...

Catholic leaders in southeast Nigeria are concerned about a trend they are witnessing among young rural Catholics — a return ...

In recent British anthropology three principal types of working definition have been used in approaching the comparative study of religion. The first treats the term ‘religion’ as lending itself with ...

smaller than West Virginia, has five million inhabitants who speak more than forty different native languages; true languages, not mere dialects. Each one of these many peoples has or had its own ...

A West African religion, elements of it have survived and evolved into the current forms with similar names that are found in the New World among the African diaspora in the Americas, such as ...

Genitalia cut from girls in illegal “circumcision” ceremonies is used in several regions of the West African country to “make ...

Ifa, a West African religion, dictates that some of its practitioners cover their “head with a head dressing during periods ...

Indonesia was followed by Senegal, Pakistan, Mali, and Tanzania. The Sub-Saharan Africa region was one of the most religious, with more than 80 percent of citizens in well over a dozen nations ...

His primary areas of interest are civil society and the state, and religion and politics in Africa. Obadare’s essays have appeared in the leading Africanist and disciplinary journals ...