Real and imagined: Imperial inventions of religion in colonial southern Africa

Religion and the Secular: Historical and Colonial Formations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 153-176

  Chidester, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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