Title: Savage systems
First published: 1996
Description: 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 nineteenth-century frontier relations, David Chidester demonstrates that the terms and conditions for comparison - including a discourse about "otherness" - that were established during this period still remain.
Subjects: Religion, Colonies, Study and teaching, History, Kolonialisme, Religionsvergleich, Vergelijkende godsdienstwetenschap, Histoire, Anthropologie, Religions, Sacré, Étude et enseignement, Kolonialismus, Geschichte, Africa, southern, history, Colonies, africa, Religion, study and teaching, Religion, history, Comparative Religion, African Religions, Philosophy & Religion
Places: Southern Africa, Africa
LC classification: BL2463 .C45 1996