Editor's Note

Abstract

I am very much delighted to introduce and welcome readers to the maiden issue of the AASR E-Journal for the academic study of the religions of Africa and the African Diaspora, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR). This marks a significant milestone in AASR’s history, and represents a systematic progression in published output by the AASR, which also produces a biannual AASR Bulletin that is available to AASR members; as well as libraries and universities through subscription. The E-Journal will serve primarily as an interdisciplinary journal in which members and non-AASR members, publish the outcomes of their original research on the religions of Africa and the African Diaspora. It will cover the wide range of religious t raditions that were or are found, were founded, and exist and operate in Africa and the African Diaspora; and topics useful to scholars involved in the academic study of religions in Africa and the African Diaspora, and to a wider readership of academics in the general study of religions. The E-Journal shall be published as electronic issues only, with two (2) issues per year. Articles will be published in English only in the first instance, but in future, if the number of Francophone AASR members would expand significantly, articles will also be published in French. AASR EJournal will be incorporated into the AASR website and be posted in its public part in order that, as an open access journal, it will be accessible to the widest academic and general public.