Religion and the Transformation of Society: A Study in Social Change in Africa

by Monica Wilson

Book Overview

When previously isolated societies come into contact with the outside world they undergo certain obvious changes. Professor Wilson has long been interested in these changes, particularly as they affect the peoples of Africa as they come into ever closer contact with European society. She sees, as the most general change going on in society, a change in scale, that is in the number of people interacting and the closeness of their interaction. In small...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104114
• ISBN13: 9780521104111
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"