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<div><p>1 Introduction to Handbook of African Traditional Religion.</p>

<p>Part I Basic/Essential Features of African Traditional Religion.</p>

<p>2 Origin, Nature, and Structure of Beliefs System.</p>

<p>3 African Traditional Religion and the Sociocultural Environment.</p>

<p>4 Metaphysical and Ontological Concepts.</p>

<p>5 The Concept and Worship of the Supreme Being.</p>

<p>6 Beliefs and Veneration of Divinities.</p>

<p>7 Beliefs and Veneration of Ancestors.</p>

<p>8 Beliefs and Practices of Magic and Medicine.</p>

<p>9 Cosmological and Ontological Beliefs.</p>

<p>10 Liturgy, Rituals, Traditions, Sacrifice, and Festivals.</p>

<p>11 African Circle of Life.</p>

<p>12 Death, Burial Rites, and After-life.</p>

<p>13 Reincarnation and Eschatology Beliefs.</p>

<p>14 Religious Leaders: Priests/Priestesses, Medicine Professionals, and Kings.</p>

<p>15 Illnesses and Cures.</p>

16 Secret Societies: Fraternities, Witches, Wizards, and Sorcerers.</p>

<p>17 The Role of Women in African Traditional Religion.</p>

<p>18 Arts, Music, and Aesthetics.</p>

<p>19 Oral and Non-Oral Sources of Knowledge in ATR: Orality and Secrecy Ethos in the Yoruba Traditional Religion within the Latin American Diaspora.</p>

<p>Part II Contemporary Interconnections: Contents and Discontents.</p>

20 African Traditional Religion and Religious Ethics.</p>

<p>21 Traditional Religion, and Morality in Society.</p>

<p>22 African Traditional Religion and African Philosophy.</p>

<p>23 African Traditional Religion, Gender Equality, and Feminism.</p>

<p>24 African Traditional Religion, Sexual Orientation, Transgender, and Homosexuality.</p>

25 African Traditional Religion, Conflict Resolution, and Peaceful Societal Co-existence.</p>

<p>26 African Traditional Religion and Democratic Governance.</p>

<p>27 African Traditional Religions and Economic Development.</p>

<p>28 African Traditional Religion, Social Justice, and Human Rights.</p>

<p>29 African Traditional Religion and Contemporary Functionalism: Divination.</p>

30 African Traditional Religion and Contemporary Functionalism: Medicine.</p>

<p>31 African Traditional Religion and Contemporary Functionalism: Festivals.</p>

<p>32 African Traditional Religion and Diaspora Transplantations: Nature and Formats.</p>

<p>33 African Traditional Religion and Sustainable Cultural, Social and Economic Dynamics.</p>

<p>34 African Traditional Religion and Sustainability: The New Indigenous Religious Movements.</p>

35 African Traditional Religion and Christianity in Contemporary Global Religious Space.</p>

<p>36 African Religion and Islam in Contemporary Religious Space.</p>

<p>Part III On Pedagogy, Research, and Foundation Scholars.</p>

<p>37 ‘Outsider’ and ‘Insider’ Study of African Traditional Religion.</p>

<p>38 Codification, Documentation, and Transmission of Knowledge in African Traditional Religion.</p>

39 African Traditional Religion and Indigenous Knowledge System.</p>

<p>40 Gnostic and Epistemological Themes in African Traditional Religion.</p>

<p>41 African Traditional Religion in African and African Diaspora Scholarship.</p>

<p>42 African Traditional Religion in Global Scholarship.</p>

<p>43 African Traditional Religion in the Context of World Religions: Challenges to Scholars and Students.</p>

44 African Traditional Religion Scholarship: E. Bolaji Idowu and John S. Mbiti.</p>

<p>45 African Traditional Religion and Humanities’ Scholarship: The Contributions of Edward Geoffrey Parrinder and Kofi Asare Opoku.</p>

<p>46 Scholarship in African Traditional Religion: The Works of Joseph Omosade Awolalu and Peter Ade Dopamu.</p><br></div>

<p><b>Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe</b> is Professor of Religion and African studies. He is currently Associate Director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USA.</p>

<b>Toyin Falola</b> is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.&nbsp;<br>

<div><i>The</i>&nbsp;<i>Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion</i>&nbsp;interrogates and presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars. Offering a range of perspectives and opinions through the prism of understanding the past about African Traditional religions and, more importantly, capturing their dynamics in the present and projecting their sustainability and relevance for the future, this volume is an essential resource for knowledge and understanding of African Traditional&nbsp;religions in the global space of religious traditions.&nbsp;<b><br></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe</b> is Professor of Religion and African studies. He is currently Associate Director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Georgia, USA.<br></div><div><div><br> <b>Toyin Falola</b> is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State, South Africa.&nbsp;</div></div>

<p>Presents robust and comprehensive contributions from interdisciplinary experts and scholars</p><p>Offers a range of perspectives and opinions on African Indigenous religions</p><p>An essential resource for understanding of African Indigenous religions in the global space of religious traditions</p>

This is perhaps the most comprehensive book ever put together on African Traditional Religion. Edited by two erudite and astute scholars of African Studies, The Palgrave Handbook of African Traditional Religion encompasses possibly all that needs to be known about ATR from traditional origins through modernity and postcoloniality to now with globalization and its features affecting it. This Handbook is a magnum opus and brings together informed scholars of the field from across Africa and the entire globe. Ibigbolade Aderibigbe and Toyin Falola have through their assiduous editorship given the academic world the deep and broad knowledge with which to see African Traditional Religion in its true light. By often placing it beside the foreign religions, especially Christianity and Islam, and delineating its moral and ethical functions, the editors and contributors give indigenous African religion the respect it more than deserves and long overdue in coming.<br>—<b>Tanure Ojaide</b>, Ph.D., Frank Porter Graham Professor of Africana Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA<p>This book is a fascinating thematic study of African Religions. The editors and authors&nbsp; demonstrate convincingly the global reality, relevance, and resilience of African religions at a time when some forms of revivalism seek to undermine the vitality of indigenous religions that continues to shape individual and communal values in dialogue with God.<br>—<b>Elias Kifon Bongmba</b>, Rice University, USA</p><p>The book is a vademecum of all that needs to be said, known and argued about concerning African Traditional Religion in and outside the continent. This manual of 46 chapters that promises to remain relevant in the academic discipline for many years to come is hereby recommended for all readers.<br>—<b>Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran</b>, Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt, Nigeria</p><p><br></p>