Editing Animism (section)

=== African indigenous religions ===
[[Traditional African religions]]: most religious traditions of [[Sub-Saharan Africa]] are basically a complex form of animism with polytheistic and shamanistic elements and [[ancestor worship]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Vontress |first=Clemmont E. |article=Animism: Foundation of Traditional Healing in Sub-Saharan Africa |year=2005 |url=https://sk.sagepub.com/books/integrating-traditional-healing-practices-into-counseling-and-psychotherapy/n11.xml |title=Integrating Traditional Healing Practices into Counseling and Psychotherapy |pages=124–137 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|SAGE Publications]], Inc. |doi=10.4135/9781452231648 |isbn=9780761930471 |access-date=2019-11-01}}</ref>

In [[West Africa]], the [[Serer religion|Serer religious (A ƭat Roog)]] encompasses ancestor veneration (not worship) via the [[Pangool]]. The Pangool are the [[Serer people|Serer]] ancestral spirits and interceders between the living and the Divine, [[Roog]].<ref>[[Henry Gravrand |Gravrand, Henry]], "La Civilisation Sereer : Pangool". vol.2, Les Nouvelles Editions Africaines du Senegal, (1990), p. 278, {{ISBN|2-7236-1055-1}}</ref><ref>Galvan, Dennis Charles, "The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal." Berkeley, University of California Press (2004), p. 53, {{ISBN|0520235916}}</ref>

In East Africa the [[Kerma culture]] display Animistic elements similar to other [[Traditional African religions]]. In contrast to the later [[polytheistic]] Napatan and Meroitic periods, the [[Kerma culture]] with displays of animals in Amulets and the esteemed antiques of Lions, appear to be an Animistic culture rather than a polytheistic culture.  The Kermans likely treated [[Jebel Barkal]] as a special sacred site, and passed it on to the Kushites and Egyptians who venerated the [[mesa]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Emberling |first1=Geoff |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/41909/chapter-abstract/354773064 |title=The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume III: Volume III: From the Hyksos to the Late Second Millennium BC |last2=Minor |first2=Elizabeth |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2022 |isbn=9780197601204 |chapter=Early Kush: The Kingdom of Kerma |doi=10.1093/oso/9780190687601.003.0025}}</ref>

In [[North Africa]], the [[traditional Berber religion]] includes the traditional polytheistic, animist, and in some rare cases, shamanistic, religions of the Berber people.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}