African traditions in the study of religion in Africa : emerging trends, indigenous spirituality and the interface with other world religions / Edited by Afe Adogame, Ezra Chitando & Bolaji Bateye.

includes bibliographical references and index.

African religions in African scholarship: a critique -- Challenges and prospects of teaching African religion in tertiary institutions in East Africa -- Teaching African traditional religion at the University of Zimbabwe -- Gender and the teaching of religious studies in Nigeria: a primary overview -- Mainstreaming HIV/AIDs in African religious and theological studies -- Women, narrative traditions, and African religious thought -- African spirituality from 'noise, dust, darkness and dancing' -- Tribes without rulers? indigenous systems of governance and sustainable rural development -- Life is superior to wealth? indigenous healers in an African community, Amasiri -- Christianity and the negotiation of cultures: a case study of Yakurr festivals in Nigeria -- From prophetism to pentacostalism: religious innovation in Africa and African religious scholarship -- Perceptions of women's health and rights in christian new religious movements in Kenya -- Religion and divine presence: appropriating christianity from within African indigenous religion's perspective -- African traditional religion in the study of the new testament in Africa -- Southern African Islamic studies scholarship: A survey of the state of the art -- Folk beliefs about spiritual power and Hinduism in Ghana.