Far less known, however, is how African religious traditions and spirituality have similarly shaped Christian thought and practice. This essay specifically addresses that gap by highlighting how ...

Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

This was around the same time or possibly before Christianity spread ... Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire.

In African religion, good and bad spirits exist, but only as impersonalised spiritual forces. In Christianity and Islam, that “spirit of evil” is called devil or Satan. Christianity presents ...

It is quite possible that Christianity came to Africa before it came to Britain and ... that there were elements within such traditional religion that made people receptive to the Christian ...

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has explained that Orisa worship, an African religious practice ... Orisa person and a chief before he, too, converted to Christianity.