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Title: Rather dry and poorly edited
Review: So-so textbook surveying the range of African religions largely in terms of significant common themes (art, religious authorities, divinities, etc.). The thematic structure shifts in the final two chapters to a consideration of African Islam and African Christianity. Note that these chapter titles specify the contents correctly, as Ray focuses on indigenized, and in some cases syncretistic or "heterodox," Muslim and Christian traditions, not on Islam in Africa or Christianity in Africa as such. Indeed, it would have enriched the book to have included some coverage of more "orthodox" expressions of Islam and Christianity in Africa. The book is occasionally illuminating, but shabbily written and/or edited, especially in the later chapters ("He trys [sic] to make the people understand," p. 160, as an example).
