first edition Hardcover
1973 · Maryknoll, NY
by Idowu, E Bolaji
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. E Bolaji Idowu (1913–1995 was the third native-born leader of the Methodist Church Nigeria, serving from 1972 to 1984. He is also well known for his ethnographic and theological studies of the Yoruba people. In the process of preparing a doctoral thesis for the University of London (in 1955), Idowu discovered that all the available material on African religion appeared to be inaccurate, condescending or simply ridiculous. (For example: Leo Frobenius's belief that the Yoruba religion came from Plato's Atlantis by way of Egypt.) As a (truncated)