Download e-book for kindle: Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa: by Prince Sorie Conteh

As is the case for many of sub-Saharan Africa, African conventional faith (ATR) is the indigenous faith of Sierra Leone. whilst the early forebears and later progenitors of Islam and Christianity arrived, they met Sierra Leone indigenes with a striking wisdom of God and a based non secular approach. Successive Muslim clerics, investors, and missionaries have been respectful of and delicate to the tradition and faith of the indigenes who accommodated them and provided them hospitality. This method led to a syncretistic model of Islam. against this, so much Christian missionaries followed an particular and insensitive method of African tradition and religiosity. Christianity, in particular Protestantism, demanded an entire abandonment of African tradition and faith, and a complete commitment to Christianity. this angle is sustained via a few indigenous clerics and non secular leaders to such an quantity that Sierra Leone Indigenous faith (SLIR) and its practitioners remain marginalised in Sierra Leone's interreligious discussion and cooperation. even though the indigenes of Sierra Leone have been and stay hospitable to Islam and Christianity, and even if SLIR stocks affinity with Islam and Christianity in lots of theological and useful matters, or even even though there are lots of Muslims and Christians who nonetheless carry directly to conventional spirituality and tradition, Muslim and Christian leaders of those immigrant religions are reluctant to incorporate Traditionalists in interfaith matters within the state. The formation and structure of the Inter-Religious Council of Sierra Leone (IRCSL), which has neighborhood and overseas reputation, didn't contain ATR. those concerns, then, beg the next questions: • Why have Muslim and Christian leaders lengthy marginalized ATR, its practices, and practitioners from interfaith discussion and cooperation in Sierra Leone? • what's missing in ATR that keeps to avoid practitioners of Christianity and Islam from formally regarding Traditionalists within the socioreligious improvement of the rustic? This booklet investigates the explanations for the exclusion of ATR from interreligious dialogue/cooperation and ATR's relevance and position within the socioreligious panorama of Sierra Leone and the remainder of the realm. It additionally discusses attainable methods for ATR's inclusion within the ongoing interfaith discussion and cooperation within the state; this can be vital simply because humans dwelling facet through aspect meet and have interaction for my part and communally regularly. As such, they percentage universal assets; communal merits; and the thrill, crises, and sorrows of lifestyles. The social and cultural interplay and cooperation interested in this discussion of lifestyles are what compel humans to completely comprehend the worldviews in their neighbours and to search out greater relationships with them. many of the extant books and classes approximately interreligious encounters and discussion deal essentially with the interplay among or extra of the key international religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. This ebook fills a niche within the research of interreligious discussion in Africa through making an allowance for where and relevance of ATR in interreligious discussion and cooperation in Sierra Leone. It offers the reader with uncomplicated wisdom of ATR, Islam, and Christianity of their Sierra Leonean contexts, and of interfaith encounters and discussion one of the 3 significant religion traditions in Africa. As such, it offers for the 1st time a old, chronological, and comparative learn of interreligious encounters and discussion between Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Sierra Leone. Traditionalists, Muslims, and Christians in Africa is a vital reference for students, researchers, non secular leaders, missionaries, and all who're drawn to interfaith cooperation and discussion, in particular between all 3 of Africa's significant residing religions-ATR, Islam, and Christianity.