Savage Systems : Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa

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