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| 1. Man and the Gods in Yoruba Art
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An exhibit of Yoruba religious art, with brief explantions of the iconography of the deities depicted.
http://www.fa.indiana.edu/~conner/yoruba/man.html
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| 2. Taking Back Our Gods and Holy Temples
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A paper presented at the 1997 Association of Black Psychologists Annual Convention in Washington, DC, by Kwabena Faheem Ashanti, Ph.D., of North Carolina State University. Urges African Americans to replace Christianity and Islam with African Traditional Religions.
http://www.ashantitone.com/Syndicated_Columns/TAKING_BACK_OUR_GODS_AND_HOLY_TEMPLES.htm
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| 3. African Traditional Religion
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Although there are cultural variations in belief among Africans, author Kwabena Dei Ofori-Attah believes they are not strong enough to blur the common strands that give Africa its distinctive religious character.
http://www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/aern/afridan.html
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| 4. West African Cosmogony
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Origin Myths of Mande, Yoruba, and Cameroon.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/cosmo.html
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| 5. African Religion and Culture
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All aspects of religion in Africa: African Traditional Religions, African Initiated Churches, African Christianity, and African Islam.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.ritchie/Africa.index.htm
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| 6. Ancestors as Elders in Africa by Igor Kopytoff
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Ancestor cults loom large in the anthropological image of Africa, but only certain dead with particular structural positions are worshipped as ancestors; this paper presents a study of ancestor and elder veneration among the matrilineal Suku of south-western Congo (Kinshasa).
http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Fdtl/Ancestors/kopytoff.html
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| 8. African Traditional Religions
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Links, articles, and resources for the traditional religions of the African continent as well as Afro-Caribbean religions and ancient Egyptian religion (About.com).
http://altreligion.about.com/religion/altreligion/cs/africanreligions/
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| 9. West African Dahomean Vodoun
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Large site created by an African-American Priestess, to initiate others across the diaspora. Site features both Dahomean Vodoun and Mami Wata traditions of West Africa, with articles on these and other ATRs in Benin, Togo, and Ghana; bibliography; links to related pages.
http://www.mamiwata.com/
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| 11. Ijaw and Ibo Beliefs: Self, Soul, and Afterlife
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Death and the afterlife play a large role in the religion of the Ibo and Kalabari (part of the Ijaw) of Nigeria, who believe in worshipping spirits, in karma, and in the existence of each person's "two souls." An essay by Karen Hauser.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/nigeria/ibo.html
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| 15. Fetichism in West Africa by the Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau
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A reprint of the entire 1904 book "Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions by the Rev. Robert Hamill Nassau, M.D. - S.T.D. for Forty Years a Missionary in the Gabun District of Kongo-Francaise," a valuable (albeit Christian) account of Congo religion in the 19th century.
http://www.palo.org/palo/fetichism-article.html
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| 16. Shona and Ndebele Religions
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Hilde Arntsen, University of Oslo, presents an introduction to the Traditional Religions of Zimbabwe, whose people communicate with God through their deceased ancestors. Part of a larger site on all the religions of the nation, including Christiantiy and Traditional-Christian-Syncretic religions.
http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/zimbabwe/religion/arntsen1.html
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| 17. African Religion
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Brings together many articles which Wim van Binsbergen has written over the years in the fields of the anthropology and intercultural philosophy of African religion.
http://www.geocities.com/africanreligion/
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| 18. Akan Cosmology and Symbolism
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This site describes Akan cosmology and illustrates it through traditional Akan religious symbols, each of which encodes within its graceful lines a theological or moral belief or lesson. The integration of this rich traditional Akan symbolism into the Roman Catholicism of Ghana is shown, as well.
http://www.marshall.edu/akanart/akancosmology.html
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| 19. The Ga Homowo Festival by A.B. Quartey-Papafio
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Originally published in the Journal of the African Society, Vol. 19, in 1919, this essay describes the religious customs of the Ga people of Ghana as they existed independently of Roman Catholic influence.
http://members.tripod.com/tettey/festival.htm
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| 20. Yoruba Religion
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A brief introduction to the religion and rituals of Yorubaland.
http://www.fandm.edu/departments/Anthropology/Bastian/ANT269/Yrelig.html
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