Religious Offices
Indigenous African religions, like most indigenous religions, do not have a named and known founder. Many do not have a sacred scripture. Often, such religions are oral traditions.
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Famous quotes containing the words religious and/or offices:
“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)