Texts on Zulu Religion: Traditional Zulu Ideas About God (African Studies) [Hardcover]

Irving Hexham (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1988 | ISBN-10: 0889461813 | ISBN-13: 978-0889461819

This volume is of a broad, general nature for use in courses in African religion.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 500 pages
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr (January 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0889461813
• ISBN-13: 978-0889461819
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,126,820 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Irving Hexham is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of World Christianity at Liverpool Hope University. He has published twenty-seven academic books, including The Concise Dictionary of Religion, Understanding Cults and New Religions, and Religion and Economic Thought, plus eighty major academic articles and chapters in books, numerous popular articles, and book reviews. Recently he completed a report for the United Nations' refugee agency on religious conflict in Africa and another for the Canadian Government's Department of Canadian Heritage on Religious Publications in Canada. He is listed in Who's Who in Canada and various scholarly directories. In 2008, he was honored at the historic Humboldt University in Berlin with a Festschrift, Border Crossings: Explorations of an Interdisciplinary Historian (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag).

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3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat interesting collection of texts, August 11, 1999

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This review is from: Texts on Zulu Religion: Traditional Zulu Ideas About God (African Studies) (Hardcover)

Hexham here compiles numerous writings about Zulu religious thought in the 19th century, from the viewpoints of missionaries, merchants and others. He includes brief descriptions of each author and edits some of the texts to limit their theme to religion a bit better, but the range of topics covered is still broad. Some of the observers are much better writers than others, and some provide much better analysis (Colenso does a great job here) - overall, the quality is fair and ranges from interesting to dull. Partially recommended, though this probably won't appeal to those really interested in the topic.