RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND THE MAKING OF THE YORUBA by J. D. Y. Peel ( 9780253215888 )

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RELIGIOUS ENCOUNTER AND THE MAKING OF THE YORUBA

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J. D. Y. Peel

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0253215889

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INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 January, 2003

Series:

African Systems of Thought

Pages:

440

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Contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. This book focuses on the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

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Peel is by training an anthropologist, but one possessed of an acute historical sensibility. Indeed, this magnificent book achieves a degree of analytical verve rare in either discipline." -History Today[T]his is scholarship of the highest quality.... Peel lifts the Yoruba past to a dimension of comparative seriousness that no one else has managed.... The book teems with ideas... about big and compelling matters of very wide interest." -T. C. McCaskieIn this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it is through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba came to know themselves as a distinctive people. Peel's detailed study of the encounter is based on the rich archives of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, which contain the journals written by the African agents of mission, who, as the first generation of literate Yoruba, played a key role in shaping modern Yoruba consciousness. This distinguished book pays special attention to the experiences of ordinary men and women and shows how the process of Christian conversion transformed Christianity into something more deeply Yoruba.

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Indiana University Press

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Winner of Winner of the 2001 Herskovits AwardWinner of the 2001 Amaury

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