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• W125256453 abstract "Introduction refers to the indigenous religion of black Africans. It is a religion that includes (1) foundational religious beliefs, such as belief in impersonal mystical powers, belief in spirit beings, belief in a Supreme Being (God), special shrines or worship places designated to the Supreme Being, and a hierarchy of spiritual beings; (2) foundational religious practices, such as establishing links and relationships with cosmic and spiritual and mystical powers, practices relating to rituals and ceremonies, practices relating to spiritual and mystical communication, and practices relating to traditional African specialists; (3) philosophical foundations in traditional worldview, such as the law of harmony, the law of the spirit, the law of power, and the law of kinship; and (4) the belief in spirit beings, such as God, lesser divinities, ordinary spirits, and the ancestors. African religion can also be described as a religion that has been handed down orally from generation to generation by the forebears of the present generation of black Africans. In view of this, it is not a fossil religion of the past but a phenomenon that Africans today have made theirs by living and practicing it. To some, the phrase may also apply to African Christianity, African Islam, and Traditional African Religion. This is the approach of Geoffrey Parrinder in his book, Africa's Three Religions. (1) Otherwise, failure to appreciate this insight will lead us to imply erroneously that Christianity and Islam are foreign to Africans and that African Christians and African Muslims are alienated from their cultural identity. If we fail to follow this argument, the question would crop up. For example, what will be said about the African-Instituted churches such as the Zion Christian Church with nearly 10,000,000 adherents in South Africa? The concern of this essay, however, is to look at African religion as the pre-Christian and the pre-Muslim religious discourses that have been conducted by indigenous Africans up to the present day. For the working definition here, African religion refers to an indigenous system of beliefs and practices that are integrated into the culture and the worldviews of the African peoples. As in other primal religions, one is born into it as a way of life with its cultural manifestations and religious implications. African religion is thus an integral part of the African ethos and culture. At this juncture, it is imperative to state that, though I am writing on African religion, I subscribe to the evangelical brand of Christianity. As Anthony Balcomb has explained, Evangelicalism is broadly understood as that brand of Christianity, emerging from the Pietist stream of the Reformed tradition, whose emphasis is on through personal encounter with the risen Christ. (2) Furthermore, this is intended to include both Pentecostal/Charismatic as well as those do not identify with these movements but those who believe in the need for personal salvation and Christian discipleship through adherence to scripture. (3) It may also include a number of people in the or ecumenical churches such as the Anglican Church, the Lutherans, the Methodists, the Roman Catholics, and so forth. (4) Admittedly, I follow in the category of Evangelicals are from the mainline churches. In particular, I am an Anglican Christian from the Anglican Church of Kenya (East Africa). Nevertheless, being an African Christian researcher, I will try as much as possible here to be fair to the study of African religion so that I do not appear to be speaking for my own professed evangelical Christianity, thereby misrepresenting the subject under discussion. The Plural Context in Doing African Religion We must acknowledge that any religious discourse in South Africa will have to be done within the context of religiosocial pluralism; indeed, Africa is full of plural faith traditions. …" @default.
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• W125256453 title "The Challenge and Reconstructive Impact of African Religion in South Africa Today" @default.
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