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Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa by David Chidester (Paperback, 1996)

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Subtitle Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. David Chidester is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town.

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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. A volume in the series Studies in Religion and Culture