This work is one of a series on "The World's Living Religions," and is intended to furnish accurate and trustworthy, though brief and popular, presentations of the actual religious life of each great region of the non-Christian world. Its purpose is to give the students of religion in the West and particularly missionary candidates who are planning to go to Africa, or other portions of the world where primitive peoples are living, a vivid conception of the religious conditions which exist in such an area and some understanding of the hold of the prevailing religion upon those who follow it.