Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa (Studies in Religion and Culture) - Softcover

Chidester, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813916674 ISBN 13: 9780813916675

Verlag: University Press of Virginia, 1996

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Book by Chidester David

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A highly original critical history of comparative religion in southern Africa that opens up the field well beyond South Africa and puts Euro-American work on notice about the bearing of tis political context. The book is on the cutting edge of comparative religion internationally and could serve well as a text in the methodological courses increasingly required in departments of religion. --Eugene M. Klaaren, Wesleyan University This work is the most through study of the meaning, construction, and definition of religion in any specific area of the world. It is a model that could be adopted with profit by scholars working in other areas of the world. --Charles Long, University of California, Santa Barbara

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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

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• Verlag: University Press of Virginia
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0813916674
• ISBN 13: 9780813916675
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 348