Savage systems : colonialism and comparative religion in southern Africa
Examines the emergence of the concepts of “religion”and “religions” on colonial frontiers. The book offers an analysis of the ways in which European travellers, 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.
Print Book, English, 1996
Univ. Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1996
History
XVIII, 324 Seiten : Illustrationen.
9780813916644, 9780813916675, 081391664X, 0813916674
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