African Sacred Spaces

African Sacred Spaces: Culture, History, and Change offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the functional relationship between “space, geography and imagined in relation to African Spirituality.” It is highly commended to scholars and students of religions.

* African Studies Quarterly *

African Sacred Spacesis an intriguing and diverse collection of essays. Every chapter is, in its own right, serious and well-researched. This collection of articles makes some significant contributions to our understanding of how the concept of sacred space informs African (or at any rate Nigerian) cultures.

* Nova Religio: The Journal Of Alternative And Emergent Religions *
“In African Sacred Spaces the authors provide a rich harvest of African and African diaspora sacred spaces as central to the notion of individual and group identities. The volume is unique in that there is something of interest for every reader irrespective of disciplinary specialty.” -- Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Idaho State University
“African Sacred Spaces analyzes the extraordinary worldview of Africans that various worlds—seen and unseen—converge to birth the interdependence of humans, nature and nurture—thereby revealing the extraordinary uniqueness of ideas that unite men with mountains, women with the moon, and children with the sun. In the indivisible world of the spiritual and physical, the book gives cogency and urgency to the need to emote along a non-Western mode of thinking in order to reform our chaotic world.” -- Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin, USA
“African Sacred Spaces is an interdisciplinary book that probes key issues pertaining to African and African diasporic sacred spaces. Taken together, the twelve chapters in this volume provides a collective understanding of African spirituality in its multi-layered interactions. It is a key resource for those who want a comprehensive book focused on the intersection of African religion, culture, and history.” -- Akintunde Akinyemi, University of Flo