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Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba (African Systems of Thought)
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba - African Systems of Thought Author:J. D. Y. Peel "[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." --Thomas McCaskie In this magisterial book, J. D. Y. Peel contends that it was through their encounter with Christian missions in the mid-19th century that the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria cam... more »e to know themselves as a distinctive people.« less