With Gods on Their Side
Basil Davidson, 7 September 1995
The Church in Africa, 1450-1950
by Adrian Hastings.
Oxford, 706 pp., £65, January 1995,0 19 826921 8 Show More
by Adrian Hastings.
Oxford, 706 pp., £65, January 1995,
A History of Christianity in Africa from Antiquity to the Present
by Elizabeth Isichei.
SPCK, 420 pp., £25, February 1995,0 281 04764 2 Show More
by Elizabeth Isichei.
SPCK, 420 pp., £25, February 1995,
Religion in Africa: Experience and Expression
edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson.
Currey, 512 pp., £45, November 1994,0 85255 206 8 Show More
edited by Thomas Blakely, Walter van Beek and Dennis Thomson.
Currey, 512 pp., £45, November 1994,
“... from the thorns and thickets of ‘function’ and ‘structure’ only to find – here in Evans-Pritchard of 1959 – that for ‘the leading anthropologists of my own generation, religious faith is total illusion, a curious phenomenon soon to become extinct’, or a handy psychological gimmick which encouraged civic obedience and whatever might pass ... ”