Compiled February 15 - 21, 2005
Top: Regional: Africa: Society and Culture: Religion
http://dmoz.org/Regional/Africa/Society_and_Culture/Religion/
Quite a collection here. There are subdirectories within subdirectories, and you can surf around for a while. Here are a few places I found interesting:African Theology And Social Change: An Anthropological Approach
(by Ian Ritchie, Ph.D.)
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.ritchie/ATSC.Contents.htm
Organization of African Traditional Healers (OATH)
http://www.mamiwata.com/OATH.html
A nonprofit, religious, educational, and certification organization committed to the positive promotion of African Traditional Religions, and the legitimatization of ATR practitioners in the United States and its territories.
National African Religion Congress (NARC)
http://narcworld.com/
Provides international directory of Priests and Priestesses of the Akan, Candomble, Haitian Voodoo, Yoruba, Lucumi, Santeria, and related religions of the African Diaspora. Discusses unity among practioners of all African based religions and gives information on up-coming NARC conferences and ceremonies.
African Religions and Their Derivatives
http://members.aol.com/porchfour/religion/african.htm
African Traditional and Derived Religion: A Research Guide
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/library/website/africanr.html
Bibliographies, atlases, and internet links from holycross.edu.
African Religion
http://www.geocities.com/africanreligion/ OR
http://www.shikanda.net/african_religion/
Brings together many articles which Wim van Binsbergen has written over the years in the fields of the anthropology and intercultural philosophy of African religion.
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AFRIKAWORLD.NET
http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/
This is another collection of several different links. I have read or skimmed the following...Emergent Key Issues in African Traditional Religion
http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/ejizu.htm
Creation in African Thought
http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/creation-in-atr.htm
African Creation Myths
http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/creation-in-atr.htm
African Traditional Religions - Yoruba, Voodoo, JuJu, Haiti
http://afgen.com/religion.html
Yoruba Belief: An Introduction (University of Indiana)
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/cut.html
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AFRICAN RELIGION ON THE INTERNET
(Stanford Junior University)
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/religion.html
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/religion/african-traditional-religion.html
RELIGION IN AFRICA
http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/africa.htmThis is from the Wabash Center's "Guide to Internet Resources for Teaching and Learning Theology and Religion," and it is only a collection of Course descriptions. But the topics and bibliographies look interesting.
META-RELIGION: TRADITIONAL AFRICA RELIGIONS
http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Ancient_religions/Africa/traditional_africa.htm
WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfricanI love Wikipedia. I often use it for reference when I post to my blog, PROPHET or MADMAN, and I think I have sent the class some links from here. The Wiki had a very good entry for "Africa". But I'm disappointed that there were no entries for "African Religion" or "African Traditional Religion".
ODE MAGAZINE
http://www.odemagazine.com/backIssue.php?oID=194Issue #16, September 2004: ODE Magazine is great. I discovered it last year around this time, and got my own subscription in May 2004. For the September issue of last year, Africa was the theme: "Africa a continent of hunger, disease, corruption, war and lost hope? WRONG, Africa has its own message to bring to the rest of the world." For example, here are two of the articles in this issue (accessible at the link above):
- Baffour Ankomah, chief-editor of New African magazine, explains Africa’s wisdom to the rest of the world.
- The world according to ubuntu -- 'I am because you are.' This widespread African teaching reminds us that you cannot be human alone.
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