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This chapter analyzes European cultural attitudes toward African people and African religions, especially during the 18th and 19th centuries. It assesses in greater depth the standard European planter and missionary responses to Obeah and Myal. This assessment is prefaced by considering the Afrophobic motif as the most essential ingredient in colonial scripts of European expansion and encounter with the African Other.
Keywords: Africa; European culture; African religion; Obeah; Myal; Afrophobia; European missionary
Chapter. 9772 words.
Subjects: East Asian Religions
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