Author: Chidester, David
Title: Savage Systems : Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa
Description: Charlottesville [VA], University Press of Virginia, (1996). orig. cloth. xviii,324 pp, 23x15cm,. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Frontiers of Compassion: Study of Religion, Science of Contact; The Absence of Religion; From Denial to Discovery; Frontiers; Comparisons; Inventing Religion: Callers at the Cape; Children of Abraham; Permanent Children; Hottentot rReligion; The Religion of Unbelievers: The Anchor; Missionary Theories of Religion; Settler Theories of Religion; Religious System; The Religion of Unbelievers; The Unknown God: Zulu Religion; John William Colenso; Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek; Henry Callaway; The Unknown God; Sacred Animals: Further Denials; Satanic Comparative Religion;Animal Emblems; Sacred Animals; Beyond the Frontier: Laughter & Pain; Comparative Strategies; The Unanchored Mentality; New Frontiers.

Keywords: African Colonial History, African Religions, Comparative, Southern South, Colonial Africa, Colonialism, Missions Missionary, Missionaries, Anthropology, History of Religion