雖然非洲基督徒的數目近年增長迅速，但在普世教會協會主辦的宗教交流會議上，一位非洲學者便指這些基督徒其實沒有放棄本身世代相傳的傳統宗教。
曾在美國哈佛大學作宗教研究、現為尼日利亞總統奧巴桑喬（Olusegun Obasanjo）顧問的艾賓保拉博士（Dr. Wande Abimbola）指出，基督教和伊斯蘭教將有上教堂或清真寺的人全部算為自己的信徒：「但同一批人我也可算入非洲傳統宗教之內！」他解釋，不少基督徒和穆斯林雖然每週上教堂或清真寺，但同時也在家中保留著傳統信仰。
艾賓保拉指出，基督教常說要「宗教對話」，但對象只集中於伊斯蘭教和猶太教，偶有包括佛教和印度教，但非洲傳統宗教卻從不被視為對話對象：「因為他們不把非洲傳統宗教視為宗教！」他指西方人士總是把非洲傳統宗教視為精靈崇拜和未開化的習俗，因此誤以為基督教和伊斯蘭教就是非洲的主流信仰：「我想澄清，絕大部分非洲人仍然信奉祖先流傳下來的宗教信仰。」
（取材國際合一新聞社）
（www.christiantimes.org.hk，時代論壇每日快拍，2005.6.9）
真正的基督教？
你認為非洲的那些信徒都不能得救？
真正基督教就是一排他式的宗教
要不就離棄偶像單單專一敬畏耶和華﹐要不就乾脆吾好信。那些愛偶像又愛耶和華的﹐神會告訴他們﹕ 不可侍奉別的神。
基督徒要為到教會史上存在不少敬畏神的僕人而感到開心﹐毋忘這些教會先賢為後世教會的貢獻﹐切忌數典忘祖。
關於非洲傳統宗教信念
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_religions
African religions are practiced by African ethnic groups. Many African religions are forms of animism. Some of these religions have been syncretized with Folk Catholicism in the Western Hemisphere. Many of these religions teach a belief in a single supreme god and many lesser gods. These religions need a god and the god usually has a totem. Animism comes into place here with the animals being worshipped as the earthly representative. Each lesser god is given a specific function and power to be able to control a particular area of the worshipper's life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#ReligionAfrica is home to a wide variety of different religious groups. As with the rest of the world, many early religions revolved around animism and ancestor worship. A common thread in traditional belief systems was the division of the spiritual world into helpful and harmful. Helpful spirits include ancestor spirits that help their descendants and powerful spirits that protected entire communities from natural disaster or attacks from enemies. Harmful spirits include the souls of murdered victims who were buried without the proper funeral rites and spirits used by hostile spirit mediums to cause illness among their enemies. While the effect of these early forms of worship continues to have a profound influence, belief systems evolved as they interacted with other religions.
The formation of the Old Kingdom of Egypt in the third millennium BCE marked the first complex religious system on the continent. Around the ninth century BCE, Carthage (in present-day Tunisia) was founded by the Phoenicians. Carthage went on to become a major cosmopolitan center of the ancient world in which deities from neighboring Egypt, Rome and the Etruscan city-states were worshipped.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates from the fourth century CE and was thus one of the first Christian churches. The expansion of Islam in the seventh century was more far-reaching as Muslims conquered the whole of Africa north of the Sahara Desert. Between 640 and 710, the Arabs conquered North Africa. Beginning with Egypt, they established Mogdishu, Melinde, Mombaza, Kilwa, and Sofala. Islam followed the sea trade down the coast of East Africa, while Islam diffused through the Sahara desert into the interior of Africa, following in particular the paths of Muslim traders. Muslims were also among the Asian peoples who settled in British-ruled Africa.The even greater disruption of the European slave trade that accompanied the colonial Scramble for Africa was followed by attempts to convert the colonized populations to Western Christianity.
Many Africans today subscribe to a syncretic belief system that mixes both traditional religion and either Christianity or Islam. Muslims form the majority of the population north of the Sahara, and significant minorities in sub-Saharan countries such as Nigeria and Kenya. In the last decades of the twentieth century, various sects of Charismatic Christianity rapidly grew. A number of Africans have even been mentioned as possible papal candidates. African Christians appear to be more socially conservative than their co-religionists in much of the industrialized world, which has led to tension within denominations such as the Anglican and Methodist Churches.
Africans profess a wide variety of religious beliefs. The two most widespread religious groups of Africa, Christianity and Islam, have their roots in Southwest Asia. Approximately 40% of all Africans are Christians and another 40% Muslims. Roughly 20% of Africans primarily follow indigenous African religions. A small number of Africans also have beliefs from the Judaic tradition, such as the Beta Israel and Lemba.
回 Ken S.
不論是字面，還是潛台詞，我都沒有「單單以農村家庭教會為中國式基督教的代表」，請仔細再讀一遍。
我所謂「中國式基督教」，不是單稱的，正如我提到了城市的情況，以及鄉村的情況。但鄉村教會畢竟人多，說是數量方面的代表，也不為過。
如果你覺得非洲的情況甚有問題，咁我想也讓你知知，中國裏面的教會，情況也很紛呈多樣。越是農村，就越會發現你可能容納不下的情況。由於各地不同，有興趣的話請自行參閱有關田野報告，建道有出版，中大也有。
我所謂「典型的農村中國人也就是這樣」，意思是他們認為各種宗教神祇在相同地方共同得到膜拜，並不是甚麼一回事。中國人的宗教觀念是較為包容性強的。加爾文式的宗教，或者我用詞過度，我的意思是排他式的宗教，其實難於與其他人士相處。
請問"非洲傳统宗教"是什麼？
請問"非洲傳统宗教"是什麼？Re. 門特: 加爾文式宗教何罪之有﹖﹗
.....你又憑什麼單單以農村家庭教會為中國式基督教的代表﹖中國人也有中國式的基督教
中國人也有中國式的基督教，情況未必差過非洲。
你看些本地學者所出版的「某某地方教會研究」，就可以認識更多內地家庭教會的實際情況。農村式的基督教尤其是因為人民民智未開而有許多在你看來絕不可容的觀念。衰些講，他們不過當耶穌係其中一個神祇係咁拜，心態同民間宗教一樣。但典型的農村中國人也就是這樣。大陸也有靈恩村，村民好多有趣做法。
城市化的基督教則比較開通，少很多迷信封閉的信仰元素。不過這種理性化的基督教，又未必合你口味了。
加爾文式的宗教，我覺得難以融入中國人的思想中。
虛假的非洲大復興﹗
‘宗教對話’只是外號﹐其實質卻是因應異教臉色選擇性地刪減正統基督教教義﹗
中國人﹐你們應向中東人努力傳講真正的福音﹐將福音傳回耶路撒冷﹗
