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Prophet Harris, the ʻBlack Elijahʼ of West Africa

This comprehensive study of West Africa's famed Prophet Harris exploits unused sources, revealing Bible-inspired messianism as the source of massive religious innovation and modernization, and well-intentioned missionary responses to his impact as the source of long-standing Ivoirian religious contentions.
Print Book, English, 1994
E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1994