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Book Title: African Traditional Religion Encounters Christianity : the Resilience of a Demonized Religion
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.5in
Item Width: 6in
Author: John Chitakure
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Christian Ministry / Missions, Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Christian Theology / Systematic, Christian Theology / General, Comparative Religion, Ethnic & Tribal, Christianity / General
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication Year: 2017
Genre: Religion, Medical
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Number of Pages: 238 Pages
