Harry Sawyerr (theologian)
For the Ghanaian politician, see Harry Sawyerr.
Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr (9 October 1909 - August 1986) was a Sierra Leonean Anglican theologian and writer on African religion.[1] He became principal of Fourah Bay College and Vice Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone.[2]
Harry Sawyerr was influenced by Thomas Sylvester Johnson, the first assistant bishop of Sierra Leone.[3]
Works
- (with William Thomas Harris) The Springs of Mende Beliefs and Conduct: a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende, 1968
- Creative Evangelism: towards a new Christian encounter with Africa, 1968
- God: Ancestor or Creator? Aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone, 1970
- (ed. J. Paratt) The Practice of Presence: Selected Papers of Harry Sawyerr, 1995
References
- ↑ L. M. Miles, Harry Alphonso Ebun Sawyerr, Dictionary of African Christian Biography, 2005. Accessed 18 November 2012.
- ↑ C. Magbaily Fyle (2006). Historical Dictionary of Sierra Leone: New Edition. Scarecrow Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8108-5339-3. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ↑ Andrew F. Wallis, 'Johnson, Thomas Sylvester', in Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, 1998. Reprinted online at the Dictionary of African Christian Biography.
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