Author: Lugira, Aloysius Muzzanganda
Title: African Religion. A Prolegomenal Essay on the Emergence & Meaning of African Autochthonous Religions
Description: Nyangwe [Zaire], Omenana, (1981). orig.wrappers. 21x13cm, 76 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: The Western Variety of Approaches to the Study of African Religion: From the Point of View of Early Travellers & Some Missionaries; From the Anthropologist's Point of View; A Critique of some Western Stereotypes Relating to African Religion; African Religion vis-a-vis Dialectical Materialism: The Religious Traditions of Tropical Africa in Contemporary Focus; Dialectical Materialism; Africans & African Autochthonous Religion; African Contributions to the Emergence of the Study of African Religion: The Emergence of the Study of African Religion; African Pioneering Initiatives in the Study of African Autochthonous Religion; Okot p'Bitek's Critique of Pioneering Studies in African Religion; Contextualization of African Religion in Western Scholarship; Okot p'Bitek versus African Religiologists; Conclusion.

Keywords: History of Religions, African Religion, Cultural, Anthropology, Comparative, Africa, Autochthonous, Okot p'Bitek,