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标题：Syncretism in Two African Cultures
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作者：Diane Simpson
期刊名称：Totem : the University of Western Ontario Journal of Anthropology
印刷版ISSN：1203-8830
电子版ISSN：1925-8542
出版年度：1995
卷号：2
期号：1
出版社：University of Western Ontario
摘要：For hundreds of years religion has formed the basis of society. It not only provided the ideologies, social, economic and political structures of society but, in some cases, was the sole basis for community life. This is definitely the case when considering the traditional religions of those who inhabit the African continent. Religion is a general belief in a spiritual world that helps to guide and give meaning to the living. Africans, in this sense, were religious people, their religion was the central institution around which communities were built. Each African group was a complete social, economic, religious and political entity - their religions, however, were not universally held beliefs. Consequently when organised religions invaded the continent, and sought to exert their ideologies, transformations took place among the traditional societies. What did these transformations entail? How did the African people deal with these transformations? The answers are not easy, as each cultural group in Africa is unique, with their own history, their own adaptations to varying geographical environments, and widely varying traditional systems of belief.
关键词：religion; Islam; Christianity; Tswana; Nubian; Africa