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Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
David Chidester
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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.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Preface
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1 Frontiers of Comparison
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2 Inventing Religion
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3 The Religion of Unbelievers
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4 The Unknown God
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5 Sacred Animal
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6 Beyond the Frontier
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 1996
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- 9780813916675 (paper)