Agama tradisional Afrika
Kepercayaan dan praktik tradisional orang Afrika meliputi agama-agama tradisional.[1][2] Umumnya, tradisi tersebut lisan ketimbang tertulis,[3][4] yang meliputi kepercayaan dalam pencipta tertinggi, kepercayaan akan roh-roh, penyembahan leluhur, penggunaan sihir dan pengobatan tradisional.[5][6] Peran kemanusiaan umumnya dipandang sebagai salah satu alam yang terharmonisasikan dengan supranatural.[6][7]
Meskipun penganut agama tradisional di Afrika sulit diperkirakan, para praktisionernya diperkirakan berjumlah lebih dari 100.000.000 orang, atau sekitar 10% dari penduduk di benua tersebut.[8] Agama-agama diaspora Afrika juga dipraktikan dalam diaspora di benua Amerika, seperti Candomble, Santería, dan Vodou.[3][9]
Statistik
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Para praktisioner agama tradisional di Afrika Sub-Sahara tersebar pada 43 negara, dan diperkirakan berjumlah lebih dari 100 juta,[8] meskipun agama di Afrika terbesar adalah Kristen dan Islam.
Referensi
- Information presented here was gleaned from World Eras Encyclopaedia, Volume 10, edited by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure (New York: Thomson-Gale, 2003), in particular pp. 275–314.
- Baldick, J (1997) Black God: The Afroasiatic Roots of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Religions. New York: Syracuse University Press.
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- Ehret, Christopher, An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400, page 159, University of Virginia Press, ISBN 0-8139-2057-4
- Karade, B (1994) The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts. York Beach, MA: Samuel Weiser Inc.
- P'Bitek, Okot. African Religions and Western Scholarship. Kampala: East African Literature Bureau, 1970.
- Princeton Online, History of Africa
- Wiredu, Kwasi Toward Decolonizing African Philosophy And Religion in African Studies Quarterly, The Online Journal for African Studies, Volume 1, Issue 4, 1998 Diarsipkan 2000-08-31 di Wayback Machine.
Bacaan tambahan
- Encyclopedia of African Religion, - Molefi Asante, Sage Publications, 1412936365
- Julian Baldick (1997). Black God: the Afroasiatic roots of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions. Syracuse University Press:ISBN 0-8156-0522-6
- West African Traditional Religion Kofi Asare Opoku | Publisher: FEP International Private Limited (1978), ASIN: B0000EE0IT
- John Mbiti African Religions and Philosophy (1969) African Writers Series, Heinemann ISBN 0-435-89591-5
- Wade Abimbola, ed. and trans. Ifa Divination Poetry (New York: NOK, 1977).
- Ulli Beier, ed. The Origins of Life and Death: African Creation Myths (London: Heinemann, 1966).
- Herbert Cole, Mbari: Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo (Bloomington: Indiana University press, 1982).
- J. B. Danquah, The Akan Doctrine of God: A Fragment of Gold Coast Ethics and Religion, second edition (London: Cass, 1968).
- Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dietterlen, Le Mythe Cosmogonique (Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie, 1965).
- Rems Nna Umeasigbu, The Way We Lived: Ibo Customs and Stories (London: Heinemann, 1969).
- Sandra Barnes, Africa's Ogun: Old World and New (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
- Segun Gbadagesin, African Philosophy: Traditional Yoruba Philosophy and Contemporary African Realities (New York: Peter Lang, 1999).
- Judith Gleason, Oya, in Praise of an African Goddess (Harper Collins, 1992).
- Bolaji Idowu, God in Yoruba Belief (Plainview: Original Publications, rev. and enlarged ed., 1995)
- Wole Soyinka, Myth, Literature and the African World (Cambridge University Press, 1976).
- E. Geoffrey Parinder, African Traditional Religion, Third ed. (London: Sheldon Press, 1974). ISBN 0-85969-014-8 pbk.
- E. Geoffrey Parinder, "Traditional Religion", in his Africa's Three Religions, Second ed. (London: Sheldon Press, 1976, ISBN 0-85969-096-2), p. [15-96].
- S. Solagbade Popoola, Ikunle Abiyamo: It is on Bent Knees that I gave Birth (2007 Asefin Media Publication)
- David Chidester, "Religions of South Africa" pp. 17–19
- Alisa LaGamma (2000). Art and oracle: African art and rituals of divination. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-933-8.
Catatan
Pranala luar
- African Comparative Belief Diarsipkan 2019-06-01 di Wayback Machine.
- Afrika world.net Diarsipkan 2019-06-01 di Wayback Machine. A website with extensive links and information about traditional African religions
- Baba Alawoye.com Baba'Awo Awoyinfa Ifaloju, showcasing Ifa using web media 2.0 (blogs, podcasting, video & photocasting)
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