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Peter Fry. Spirits of Protest. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1976. viii + 145 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $10.95

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Peter Fry. Spirits of Protest. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1976. viii + 145 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, index. $10.95

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

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Southern and Central Africa: Past and Present
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1978

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1 See Horton, R., “African Conversion,” Africa 41 (1971): 85108 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; “A Definition of Religion and Its Uses,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 90 (1960): 201-225; “African Traditional Thought and Western Science,” Africa 37 (1967): 50-71, 155-187. For two attacks on Horton's theory, see Fisher, H.J., “Conversion Reconsidered: Some Historical Aspects of Religious Conversion in Black Africa,” Africa 43 (1973): 2740 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Ifeka-Moller, C., “White Power: Social Structural Factors in Conversion to Christianity, Eastern Nigeria, 1921-1966,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 8 (1974): 5572 Google Scholar. For replies by Horton to these, see Horton, R., “On the Rationality of Conversion,” Africa 45 (1975): 219235 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Horton, R. and Peel, J.D.Y., “Conversion and Confusion: A Rejoinder on Christianity in Eastern Nigeria,” Canadian Journal of African Studies 10 (1976): 481498.Google Scholar

2 “Heathen Practices in the Urban and Rural Parts of Marandellas Area and Their Effect Upon Christianity,” in Ranger, T.O. and Weller, J., eds., Themes in the Christian History of Central Africa (London, 1975), pp. 7682 Google Scholar. See also his article in Dachs, A.J., ed., Christianity South of the Zambezi (Salisbury, 1973)Google Scholar. Much of the work done by anthropologists, historians, and theologians on African religion in the early 1970s was reported, and occasionally discussed, in the pages of African Religious Research, 1971-1975.