In a study of Africa's political and religious past, Christopher Wrigley uses local traditions and comparative mythology to explore an ancient system of myth and ritual in the precolonial kingdom of Buganda, the nucleus of modern Uganda. The study includes critical assessment of oral traditions and places Buganda in a wider regional context. The book is an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.

The Infidels is a book about the: roles of Judaism, Christianity and Islam in today's world religious conflict. outside forces rapidly bearing down on each of them that will inevitably force each to make drastic changes in their beliefs. It exposes the origins of the underlying violent images that are built into these three belief systems and, although it leaves it to the reader to decide, argues that culpability for world religious conflict lies not only with the failures of Islam, but also with the failures of Judaism and Christianity. It calls on these ancient religions to face new world...

This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa is a subtle and wide-ranging study of status and respectability in the colonial Cape. Focusing on domestic relationships, gender, education, and religion, it analyzes values and modes of thinking current in different social strata, arguing that these cultural factors were related to high political developments. The result is a rich account of changes in social identity that accompanied the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and the development of white racism and ideologies of resistance to white domination.