Religion in Africa Author:Geoffrey Parrinder In Geoffrey Parrinder's schema, the living religions of Africa-those that, unlike the religion of the Egyptian Pharaohs, are still practiced-fall into three groups: Christianity, Islam, and traditional (indigenous)religions. Traditional religions are the beliefs and practices of preliterate peoples: the have no written texts and the precise hist... more »ory of the emergence is unknown, because ancient African ideas have not been systematically transmitted to the the present. But many tribes have myths, rituals, and songs that go back to time immemorial, provers enshrining ancient wisdom, and modern attitudes reflecting earlier tradition as well as thought about the present.« less