Contents: Preface, Ulrich Berner Introduction: African traditions in the study of religion in Africa: contending with gender, the vitality of indigenous religions and diaspora, Ezra Chitando, Afe Adogame and Bolaji Bateye Part I Religion and Society, Religion in Society: Approaches to peacemaking in Africa: Obuntu perspectives from Western Kenya, Lucas Nandih Shamala Religious pluralism and secularization in the Nigerian religious sphere, Danoye Oguntola Laguda Faith, spiritualism and materialism: understanding the interfaces of religion and the economy in Nigeria, Olutayo Adesina Towards a civil religion in Nigeria, Musa Barnabas Gaiya The implications of ancestral veneration manifesting in national symbols for national integration and moral transformation in Nigeria, Jacob Kehinde Ayantayo The concept of expiatory sacrifice in the early Church and in African indigenous religious traditions, Samson Adetunji Fatokun. Part II Diaspora, Youth and Gender Dynamics: Researching African immigrant religions: boundaries, belonging and access, Abel Ugba AuA--nA- obA--nrin kA^2 seA(c) dA!kA(c) lA!sA!n, bA- a dA!kA(c) lA!sA!n, enu nA-A- yo ni: womena (TM)s leadership roles in AlA!dA-rA churches in Nigeria and the USA, MojA * bA olA * OlA * fA * nkA(c) Okome and Elisha P. Renne The place of second-generation youth in West Indian Pentecostalism in the diaspora - New York and London, Janice McLean Religion and masculinities in Africa: an opportunity for Africanization, Ezra Chitando Rethinking women, nature and ritual purity in Yoruba religious traditions, Bolaji Bateye The impact of Christian women's organizations on Nigerian society, Dorcas Olu Akintunde The Northern Nigerian Muslim woman: between economic crisis and religious puritanism, Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina Index.