Contemporary Perspectives on Religions in Africa and the African Diaspora

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Religious Traditions in Africa: An Overview of Origins, Basic Beliefs, and Practices

Chapter 3 Modern Trends in the Teaching of African Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Conceptual Decolonization

Chapter 4 African Religion in Twenty-First Century and the Search for Philosophical Relevance

Chapter 5 African Religious Movements and Pentecostalism: The Model of Ijo-Orunmila, Ato

Chapter 6 African Religion and Health Care Delivery in Africa

Chapter 7 Religion and the Environment: Some Ethical Reflections on African Indigenous Religion and Christianity

Chapter 8 Christianity in Contemporary African Religious Space

Chapter 9 Islam in the Contemporary African Society

Chapter 10 African-Derived Religions in Diaspora: An Overview

Chapter 11 Arts and Music in African Derived Diaspora Religions

Chapter 12 Women in the African Diaspora: Sojourner Truth, Hybrid Identity, and Multi-vocal Text

Chapter 13 Womanist Spirituality: Legacies of Freedom

Chapter 14 Finding Home in a Foreign Land: Initiation and Possession in Santería, Candomblé, and Voudou

Chapter 15 Mythology of Rituals and Sacrifices in African-Derived Diaspora Religions

Chapter 16 Socioreligious Agencies of Santería Religion in the United States of America

Chapter 17 Modern Legal Issues in the Practice of African Diaspora Religions

Chapter 18 African Religious Systems in the Context of World Religions: Challenges for the American Scholars

Chapter 19 African Initiated Churches and African Immigrants in the United States: A Model in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, North America (RCCGNA)

Chapter 20 Islamic Communities in the United States: Issues of Religion and Political Identity