God and Wor­ship in Tra­di­tio­nal Asu So­cie­ty

The re­se­arch of C. Oma­ri bet­ween the ye­ars 1967 and 1969 yiel­ded a body of ma­te­ri­als on God and wor­ship among the Pare peo­p­le in Tan­z­a­nia. His aim was to learn di­rect­ly from the peo­p­le in Tan­z­a­nia about their be­lief sys­tems and com­mit them to wri­ting. He, the­r­e­fo­re, was able to de­mons­tra­te that some peo­p­le of Af­ri­can ori­gin have be­lie­ved in God much lon­ger than other peo­p­les. His the­sis was sub­mit­ted to the Uni­ver­si­ty of East Af­ri­ca in 1970. The aut­hor is lec­tu­rer in the De­part­ment of So­cio­lo­gy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Dar es Sa­laam and an Ex­ter­nal Ex­ami­ner at the Lu­ther­an Theo­lo­gi­cal Col­lege, Ma­ku­m­i­ra.