African Philosophy of Religion and Western Monotheism

Kirk Lougheed author Motsamai Molefe author Thaddeus Metz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:28th Mar '24

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This Element critically compares and contrasts features of African Traditional Religion with Western monotheism.

This Element focuses on drawing attention to African Traditional Religion a major world religion that has been much neglected by scholars around the globe, particularly those working in the West or Northern Hemisphere.The Abrahamic faiths of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are typically recognized as the world's major monotheistic religions. However, African Traditional Religion is, despite often including lesser spirits and gods, a monotheistic religion with numerous adherents in sub-Saharan Africa; it includes the idea of a single most powerful God responsible for the creation and sustenance of everything else. This Element focuses on drawing attention to this major world religion that has been much neglected by scholars around the globe, particularly those working in the West or Northern Hemisphere. It accomplishes this primarily by bringing it into conversation with topics in the Anglo-American philosophy of religion.

ISBN: 9781009524896

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm

Weight: 127g

78 pages