Comparative Historical and Interpretative Study of Religions.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter I. Religious Experience and expression -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What is a Religious experience? -- 1.3 The manifestation of the Sacred -- 1.4 The object of apprehension in religious experience -- 1.5 Indigenous experience of Deity -- Conclusion -- Chapter II. History of Religions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The primordial nature of religion -- 2.3 Stages of religious development -- 2.4 The higher religions -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter III. Early Christian Church to 451 AD -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The formation and growth of the early church -- 3.3 The church in conflict -- 3.4 Early heresies -- 3.5 The Apologists and early Catholic fathers -- 3.6 Persecutions and ecumenical councils -- 3.7 The church after Nicaea -- Chapter IV. Methodological problems in the study of African traditional religions -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The study of African traditional religions -- Conclusion -- Chapter V God and man in African traditional religions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 God in African traditional religions -- 5.3 The worship of God -- 5.4 The phenomenon in Urhoboland -- Chapter VI. The relevance of the divinities in African traditional religions -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Focus on African traditional religions -- 6.3 Divinities in Urhobo traditional religion -- 6.4 Ancestors as core of Divinity in Urhoboland -- 6.5 Orha, Edjorawha and Edjorame -- Concluding remarks -- Chapter VII. Evil spirits and mysterious forces in Africa -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Evil spirits in Urhobo religion -- 7.3 Mysterious forces -- 7.4 Redressive or rituals of affliction -- Chapter VIII. Pollution in African and Biblical traditions -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The concepts of taboo and pollution in African traditional religions -- 8.3 Totams and taboos in Biblical traditions.

8.4 Evaluations of taboos in African and Biblical traditions -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

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