Prophet Harris, The 'Black Elijah' of West Africa : : Abridged by Jocelyn Murray / / David A. Shank.
This comprehensive study of West Africa's famed Prophet Harris exploits unused sources, revealing Bible-inspired messianism as the source of massive religious innovation and modernization, and well-intentioned missionary responses to his impact as the source of long-standing Ivoirian religious...
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| Superior document: | Studies of Religion in Africa Series ; v.10 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill Academic Publishers,, 1994. |
| Year of Publication: | 1994 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies of Religion in Africa Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Editor's preface
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- PART ONE THE HISTORICAL MISSION OF THE PROPHET HARRIS
- Chapter One: The prophetic mission of William Wadé Harris
- PART TWO THE MAKING OF THE PROPHET
- Chapter Two: The roots of the Prophet Harris
- Chapter Three: Preprophetic adulthood, I: 1881-1899
- Chapter Four: Preprophetic adulthood, II: 1899-1910
- Chapter Five: The trance-visitation of 1910
- Illustrations I-IX
- PART THREE PROPHETIC THOUGHT PATTERNS
- Chapter Six: Biblical eschatology: the key to Harris's patterns of thought
- Chapter Seven: Patterns in Biblical understanding
- Chapter Eight: "Spiritual" phenomena as thought patterns
- Chapter Nine: Symbolic patterns
- Chapter Ten: The prophetic word
- Chapter Eleven: Patterns of thought relating to missions and churches
- Chapter Twelve: Patterns of thought relating to colonial administration and political government
- Chapter Thirteen: Post-Scriptum
- Bibliography
- Index
- STUDIES OF RELIGION IN AFRICA.