The scholarly community has gathered sufficient ethnographic data on African ethnic and religious traditions to engage in serious theoretical and comparative work on religion in Africa. Now is the time for scholars of African religions, who are deeply interested in the discourse on the religions and cultures of the region, to embark on in-depth analysis of how indigenous African religion is similar to or different from other world religions. We especially need to distance ourselves from the tendency in academia to see African religions as less significant than other world religions and therefore less worthy of serious study. Even though religious studies as a discipline claims to recognize the value of religion to all humankind, the field remains parochial, sectional, and not universally appreciative of all human religions. The good news is that scholars of non-Western religions in places like Asia have liberated their fields from these kinds of difficulties...
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