Journal of Religion in Africa

Executive Editor

ADELINE MASQUELIER (Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA)



Deputy Editors

Frederick Klaits (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)

Janet McIntosh (Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA)

Kevin Ward (Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK)



Reviews Editor

Misty Bastian (Department of Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College, PO Box 3003,
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003, USA), to whom review copies of books should be sent.



Former Editor (1985-2000)

Adrian Hastings †



Founding Editor

Andrew Walls (Edinburgh)



Editorial Advisory Board

Afe Adogame (University of Edinburgh, UK) — Kwabena Asamoah -Gyadu (TrinityTheological Seminary, Legon, Ghana) — Renaat Devisch (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) — Matthew Engelke (Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics,UK) — P aul Gifford (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) — Niels Kastfelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) — Roman Loimeier (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA) — David Maxwell (University of Keele, UK) — Birgit Meyer (Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) — Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator (Hekima College, Jesuit School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya) — Didier Péclard (Swiss Peace Foundation, Berne, Switzerland) — J.D.Y. Peel (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK) — Elizabeth Sirriyeh (University of Leeds, UK) — Benjamin Soares (African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands) — Brad Weiss (Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, USA) — David Westerlund (Södertörn University College, Huddinge, Sweden).

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International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scolarly Literature
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'...an invaluable resource'
Elizabeth Isichei, The Religious Traditions of Africa: A History

VOLUME 38.1
Editorial 1

Evanson N. Wamagatta 3
Changes of Government Policies Towards Mission Education in Colonial Kenya and their Effects on the Missions: The Case of the Gospel Missionary Society

Michael Jennings 27
‘Healing of Bodies, Salvation of Souls’: Missionary Medicine in Colonial Tanganyika, 1870s-1939

T.C. McCaskie 57
Akwantemfi – ‘In Mid-Journey’: An Asante Shrine Today and Its Clients

REVIEWS AFRIKA-STUDIECENTRUM ABSTRACTS 101