Savage Systems – Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa

Savage Systems Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa\nby David Chidester\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: David Chidester\nTitle: Savage Systems Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Religion: general\nPublisher: MP-VIR Uni of Virginia\nPublication year: 1996\nISBN-13: 9780813916675\nISBN-10: 0813916674\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nExamines the emergence of the concepts of \u201Creligion\u201Dand \u201Creligions\u201D 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.\n\nExamin.