Olupona - African religions : a very short introduction

African Religions: A Very Short Introduction VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS are for anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way in to a new subject. They are written by experts and have been translated into more than 40 different languages. The series began in 1995 and now covers a wide variety of topics in every discipline. The VSI library contains nearly 400 volumesa Very Short Introduction to everything from Indian philosophy to psychology and American history and continues to grow in every subject area. Very Short Introductions available now: ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman AFRICAN HISTORY John Parker THE ANGLO - SAXON AGE and Richard Rathbone John Blair AFRICAN RELIGIONS THE ANIMAL Jacob K. Olupna KINGDOM Peter Holland AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin ANIMAL RIGHTS AMERICAN HISTORY David DeGrazia Paul S.

Boyer THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds AMERICAN IMMIGRATION ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller David A. Gerber ANXIETY Daniel Freeman and AMERICAN LEGAL Jason Freeman HISTORY G. Edward White THE APOCRYPHAL AMERICAN POLITICAL GOSPELS Paul Foster PARTIES AND ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel ARCHITECTURE AMERICAN POLITICS Andrew Ballantyne Richard M. Valelly ARISTOCRACY William Doyle THE AMERICAN ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes PRESIDENCY Charles O. Jones ART HISTORY Dana Arnold ANAESTHESIA Aidan ODonnell ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland ANARCHISM Colin Ward ASTROBIOLOGY David C.

Catling ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw ATHEISM Julian Baggini ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick THE ANCIENT NEAR AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan EAST Amanda H. Podany AUTISM Uta Frith ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY THE AVANT GARDE Julia Annas David Cottington ANCIENT WARFARE THE AZTECS Davd Carrasco Harry Sidebottom BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes ANGELS David Albert Jones BARTHES Jonathan Culler THE BEATS David Sterritt CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead BEAUTY Roger Scruton CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CIVIL ENGINEERING THE BIBLE John Riches David Muir Wood BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY CLASSICAL Eric H. Cline MYTHOLOGY Helen Morales BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee CLASSICS Mary Beard THE BLUES Elijah Wald and John Henderson THE BOOK OF CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard MORMON Terryl Givens CLIMATE Mark Maslin BORDERS Alexander C. Diener THE COLD WAR and Joshua Hagen Robert McMahon THE BRAIN Michael OShea COLONIAL AMERICA THE BRITISH Alan Taylor CONSTITUTION COLONIAL LATIN Martin Loughlin AMERICAN THE BRITISH EMPIRE LITERATURE Rolena Adorno Ashley Jackson COMEDY Matthew Bevis BRITISH POLITICS COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes Anthony Wright THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince BUDDHA Michael Carrithers THE CONQUISTADORS BUDDHISM Damien Keown Matthew Restall and BUDDHIST ETHICS Felipe Fernndez-Armesto Damien Keown CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm CANCER Nicholas James CONSCIOUSNESS CAPITALISM James Fulcher Susan Blackmore CATHOLICISM Gerald OCollins CONTEMPORARY ART CAUSATION Stephen Mumford Julian Stallabrass and Rani Lill Anjum CONTEMPORARY THE CELL Terence Allen FICTION Robert Eaglestone and Graham Cowling CONTINENTAL THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe PHILOSOPHY CHAOS Leonard Smith Simon Critchley CHILDRENS LITERATURE COSMOLOGY Peter Coles Kimberley Reynolds CRITICAL THEORY CHINESE LITERATURE Stephen Eric Bronner Sabina Knight THE CRUSADES CHOICE THEORY Christopher Tyerman Michael Allingham CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper CHRISTIAN ART and Sean Murphy Beth Williamson THE CULTURAL CHRISTIAN ETHICS REVOLUTION D.

Stephen Long Richard Curt Kraus DADA AND SURREALISM EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci David Hopkins ETHICS Simon Blackburn DARWIN Jonathan Howard ETHNOMUSICOLOGY THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Rice Timothy Lim THE EUROPEAN UNION DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick John Pinder and Simon Usherwood DERRIDA Simon Glendinning EVOLUTION DESCARTES Tom Sorell Brian and Deborah Charlesworth DESERTS Nick Middleton EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn DESIGN John Heskett FASCISM Kevin Passmore DEVELOPMENTAL FASHION Rebecca Arnold BIOLOGY Lewis Wolpert FEMINISM Margaret Walters THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM Michael Wood DIASPORA Kevin Kenny FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak DICTIONARIES THE FIRST WORLD WAR Lynda Mugglestone Michael Howard DINOSAURS David Norman FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOOD John Krebs DOCUMENTARY FILM FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY Patricia Aufderheide David Canter DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser DRUGS Leslie Iversen FOSSILS Keith Thomson DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOUCAULT Gary Gutting EARLY MUSIC FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer Thomas Forrest Kelly FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton THE EARTH Martin Redfern FREE WILL Thomas Pink ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRENCH LITERATURE EDUCATION Gary Thomas John D. Lyons EGYPTIAN MYTH THE FRENCH REVOLUTION Geraldine Pinch William Doyle EIGHTEENTHCENTURY FREUD Anthony Storr BRITAIN Paul Langford FUNDAMENTALISM THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball Malise Ruthven EMOTION Dylan Evans GALAXIES John Gribbin EMPIRE Stephen Howe GALILEO Stillman Drake ENGELS Terrell Carver GAME THEORY Ken Binmore ENGINEERING David Blockley GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh ENGLISH LITERATURE GENIUS Andrew Robinson Jonathan Bate GEOGRAPHY John Matthews ENTREPRENEURSHIP and David Herbert Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds ENVIRONMENTAL GERMAN LITERATURE ECONOMICS Stephen Smith Nicholas Boyle GERMAN PHILOSOPHY IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden Andrew Bowie INDIAN PHILOSOPHY GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Sue Hamilton Bill McGuire INFORMATION Luciano Floridi GLOBAL ECONOMIC INNOVATION Mark Dodgson HISTORY Robert C. Allen and David Gann GLOBAL WARMING INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary Mark Maslin INTERNATIONAL GLOBALIZATION MIGRATION Khalid Koser Manfred Steger INTERNATIONAL THE GOTHIC Nick Groom RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir INTERNATIONAL SECURITY THE GREAT DEPRESSION Christopher S.

Browning AND THE NEW DEAL ISLAM Malise Ruthven Eric Rauchway ISLAMIC HISTORY HABERMAS Adam Silverstein James Gordon Finlayson ITALIAN LITERATURE HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron Peter Hainsworth and David Robey HEGEL Peter Singer JESUS Richard Bauckham HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts JUDAISM Norman Solomon HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson JUNG Anthony Stevens HINDUISM Kim Knott KABBALAH Joseph Dan HISTORY John H. Arnold KAFKA Ritchie Robertson THE HISTORY OF KANT Roger Scruton ASTRONOMY Michael Hoskin KEYNES Robert Skidelsky THE HISTORY OF LIFE KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner Michael Benton THE KORAN Michael Cook THE HISTORY OF LANDSCAPES AND MATHEMATICS GEOMORPHOLOGY Jacqueline Stedall Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson MEDICINE William Bynum LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark THE HISTORY OF LAW Raymond Wacks TIME Leofranc Holford - Strevens THE LAWS OF HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside THERMODYNAMICS HOBBES Richard Tuck Peter Atkins HUMAN EVOLUTION LEADERSHIP Keith Grint Bernard Wood LINCOLN Allen C. J. J.

Ayer LOCKE John Dunn LOGIC Graham Priest MORMONISM MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner Richard Lyman Bushman MADNESS Andrew Scull MUHAMMAD MAGIC Owen Davies Jonathan A.C. Brown MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent MULTICULTURALISM MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell Ali Rattansi MALTHUS Donald Winch MUSIC Nicholas Cook MANAGEMENT John Hendry MYTH Robert A. Segal MAO Delia Davin THE NAPOLEONIC WARS MARINE BIOLOGY Mike Rapport Philip V. Mladenov NATIONALISM Steven Grosby THE MARQUIS DE SADE NELSON MANDELA John Phillips Elleke Boehmer MARTIN LUTHER NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger Scott H. Hendrix and Ravi Roy MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli MARX Peter Singer and Michele Catanzaro MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers THE NEW TESTAMENT THE MEANING OF LIFE Luke Timothy Johnson Terry Eagleton THE NEW TESTAMENT AS MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope LITERATURE Kyle Keefer MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NEWTON Robert Iliffe MEDIEVAL BRITAIN NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEMORY Jonathan K.