Wright, Marcia. “African History in the 1960’s: Religion.” African Studies Review 14, no. 3 (1971):439–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/523775.

Of all the “subfields” of African history, religion is in the most preliminary condition. It is also, in all probability, the most difficult to treat in an orderly fashion, owing to the constant spillover in toother areas generally regarded to be more pre-emptive in modern historiography. Our task in isolating religion as a subfield entails in part an operation of retrieval from political, social, and intellectual sectors of the discipline. Problems of definition must also be tackled. Are we primarily concerned with religion in history or the history of religion? Where is the cut-off mark in considering myth, ritual, and other phenomena that are related, but not at all times central, to religion?

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