"Classify and conquer": Friedrich Max Müller, indigenous religious traditions, and imperial comparative religion

Beyond Primitivism: Indigenous Religious Traditions and Modernity

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 71-88

  Chidester, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203634509     Document Type: Chapter

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