TY  - BOOK
TI  - African religions & philosophy 
SN  - 0385037139
AV  - BL2400 .M38
PY  - 1970///
CY  - Oxford ; Portsmouth, N.H. : 
PB  - Heinemann
KW  - Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Religion.     .
KW  - Philosophy, African.     Religion
N1  - Introduction --
The study of African religions & philosophy --
The concept of time --
The nature of God --
The works of God --
God & nature --
The worship of God --
Spiritual beings, spirits & the living-dead --
The creation & original state of man --
Ethnic groups, kinship & the individual --
Birth & childhood --
Initiation & puberty rites --
Marriage & procreation --
Death & the hereafter --
Specialists: medicine-men, rainmakers, kings & priests --
Mystical power, magic, witchcraft & sorcery --
The concepts of evil, ethics & justice --
Changing man & his problems --
Christianity, Islam & other religions in Africa --
The search for new values, identity & security
ER  -