African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life

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Summary: Good documentation, Bad metholodology and silly conclusions
Review: This is an interesting book, and one can learn much from it concerning the value of African Religion. However, the author's methodology is horrible. The first chapter he makes all kind of assertions without adequate evidence to support his views. The main one being that African Religion is among the world religions. African religion cannot be a world religion because one: it has no canon or standard text, is culturally bound, and three is barely cohesive. He continues to examine tribes randomly to support his view, but the question is in your mind, "Is he making the evidence fit?" The actual conclusion chapter is only a few pages long. Why?--he already gave his conclusions in the intro! You haven't convinced me bub.