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Preface
This multifaceted book is a result of library research and fieldwork undertaken in 2002, 2005, and 2006 in Sierra Leone, West Africa, where the main subjects of this study reside. It seeks to provide a book for students, teachers, scholars, religious leaders, missionaries, and those interested in interfaith cooperation and dialogue, especially among all three of Africa’s major living religions—African Traditional1 Religion2 (ATR), Christianity, and Islam.
Most of the extant books and courses about interreligious encounters and dialogue deal primarily with the interaction between two or more of the major world religions: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism. This book fills a gap in the study of interreligious dialogue in Africa by taking into consideration the place and relevance of ATR in interreligious dialogue and cooperation in Sierra Leone.
It provides the reader with basic knowledge of ATR, Islam, and Christianity in their Sierra Leonean contexts, and of interfaith encounter and dialogue among the three major faith traditions in Africa.