Title: Adamo, D.T. (2001). Reading and interpreting the bible in African indigenous churches. Eugene.OR;Wipf and Stock. ISBN 1-57910-700-1 Pp. iv–120

Book Reviewer: Hereni Elia Serekali

 Hereni Elia Serekali Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Teofilo Kisanji University, P.O. Box 1104, Mbeya, United Republic of Tanzania.

*Correspondence: hereniserekali@gmail.com

Abstract

David Tuesday Adamo is Professor of biblical and religious studies and former dean of the Faculty of Arts at Delta State University, Abraka, Delta State, Nigeria. In this outstanding book, Adam endeavors to resolve the African identity crisis engendered by western missionaries when they brought Christianity in an African soil. He honestly presents and discusses the ways in which African Indigenous Churches have managed to use the main tenets of African Traditional Religion (ATR) in their interpretation of the Bible within Christianity as their effort to make Christianity African. In doing that, Adamo shows in this book the way in which human needs here on earth, mostly neglected by western missionaries in their interpretation of the Bible but wellconceived by ATR, are important aspects towards understanding the biblical message.