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Ancestors in African religion : a comparative study of the role of ancestors in the Sotho and Nguni worship and religious ethics

Bibliography: leaves 118-122. / Belief in ancestral spirits among the Africans has always aroused a hot debate among scholars of African Religion. To a great number of scholars this belief seems to have been exaggerated. The fact that Africans speak more about their ancestors than about God has led some scholars into thinking that God has no place in African Traditional Religion.They argue that God is not worshipped in African Traditional Religion.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/6044
Date January 2003
CreatorsMoiloa, Peter Mokhele
ContributorsMazamisa, Welile
PublisherUniversity of Cape Town, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Religious Studies
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster Thesis, Masters, MSocSc
Formatapplication/pdf

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