Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern AfricaUniversity of Virginia Press, 1996 - 324 pagina's Savage Systems examines the emergence of the concepts of "religion"and "religions" on colonial frontiers. The book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which European travelers, missionaries, settlers, and government agents, as well as indigenous Africans, engaged in the comparison of alternative religious ways of life as one dimension of intercultural contact. Focusing primarily on ninteenth-century frontier relations, David Chidester demonstrates that the terms and conditions for comparison--including a discrouse about "otherness" that were established during this period still remains. A volume in the series Studies in Religion and Culture |
Inhoudsopgave
The Absence of Religion | 11 |
Frontiers | 20 |
Comparisons | 26 |
Callers at the Cape | 34 |
Children of Abraham | 46 |
Permanent Children | 56 |
Hottentot Religion | 67 |
3 | 73 |
Henry Callaway | 152 |
The Unknown God | 168 |
Further Denials | 178 |
Satanic Comparative Religion | 184 |
Contested Appropriations | 192 |
Animal Emblems | 199 |
Sacred Animals | 214 |
Laughter and Pain | 225 |
Missionary Theories of Religion | 87 |
Settler Theories of Religion | 94 |
Religious System | 102 |
The Religion of Unbelievers | 110 |
The Unknown God | 116 |
John William Colenso | 129 |
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek | 141 |
Comparative Strategies | 233 |
The Unanchored Mentality | 243 |
New Frontiers | 253 |
Notes | 267 |
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Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa David Chidester Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1996 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
absence of religion African religion analysis ancestor worship anchor ancient Israel argued Bagananoa Bantu Bantu religion Basuto Bechuanas beliefs and practices biblical Bleek Boers British Bushmen Christian mission Colenso colonial comparative religion comparative religionists comparison context customs denial discovery divine Dutch eastern Cape eastern Cape frontier European comparativists evidence fetishism frontier comparative religion gion Godlonton Henry Callaway Hottentot religion human identified indigenous religion insisted Jews John Barrow Kafirs Kemp Khoikhoi Kolb lacked land language Max Müller Mbande Mentzel missionaries moon Morimo Muslim Mxaba myth Natal nations native Nevertheless nineteenth century northern frontier origin political primitive mentality proposed region reli religion in southern religious system reports ritual Robert Moffat sacred animals savage settlers significance Sotho-Tswana South Africa southern Africa southern African frontiers study of religion superstition Supreme Theal tion totems traced traditional travelers tribal tribes Tswana uNkulunkulu W. H. I. Bleek Warner Xhosa Zulu religion
Populaire passages
Pagina 283 - God in History; or, the Progress of Man's Faith in the Moral Order of the World.