This bibliography revises and expands the list compiled by T. C. McCaskie that was published in T. Falola (ed.) (2005) Christianity and Social Change in Africa: essays in honor of J. D. Y. Peel (Durham NC: Carolina Academic Press). I am particularly grateful to Wale Adebanwi, Olufunke Adeboye, Yetunde Aina and Bolanle Awe for leads and information, and I would also like to thank Francis Peel for access to his late father's collection of off-prints.
1966
Review of Calley, M. J. C., God's People: West Indian Pentecostal sects in England and R. L. Wishlade, Sectarianism in Southern Nyasaland . British Journal of Sociology 17 (3): 328.
1967
‘Religious change in Yorubaland’, Africa 37 (3): 292–306; facsimile reprint in O. Pettersson (ed.), Religion and Society: papers in cultural anthropology. Lund: Studentliteratur, pp. 33–47.
Review of Fuchs, S., Rebellious Prophets: a study of messianic movements in Indian religions . British Journal of Sociology 18 (2): 223.
Review of Prades, J. A., La Sociologie de la religion chez Max Weber: Essai d'analyse et de critique de la méthode . British Journal of Sociology 18 (3): 340.
1968
Aladura: a religious movement among the Yoruba. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, pp. xii + 338.
‘Syncretism and religious change’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 10 (2): 121–41.
1969
‘The Aladura movement in Western Nigeria’, Tarikh 3: 48–55.
‘Spencer and the Neo-Evolutionists’, Sociology 3 (2): 173–91; reprinted in R. S. Denisoff, O. Callahan and M. H. Levine (eds) (1974), Theories and Paradigms in Contemporary Sociology. Itasca IL: F. E. Peacock Publishers.
‘Understanding alien belief-systems’, British Journal of Sociology 20 (1): 69–84; reprinted and translated as ‘Was heißt “fremde Glaubenssysteme verstehen”?’ in Kippenberg, H. G. and Luchesi, B. (eds) (1978), Magie: die Sozialwissenschaftliche Kontroverse über das Verstehen fremden Denkens. Frankfurt-am-Main: Suhrkamp, pp. 150–73.
Review of Long, N., Social Change and the Individual: a study of the social and religious responses to innovation in a Zambian rural community . Sociology 3 (3): 440.
1970
‘Reply to Beattie's comment on “Understanding alien belief-systems”’, British Journal of Sociology 21 (2): 224–6.
Review of Andreski, S., Herbert Spencer, the Principles of Sociology . British Journal of Sociology 21 (1): 109–10.
Review of Barrett, D., Schism and Renewal in Africa: an analysis of six thousand contemporary religious movements . Sociology 4 (2): 249–51.
Review of Keller, A. G. and Davie, M. R. (eds), Essays of William Graham Sumner (reprint, 2 vols). Sociology 4 (1): 132.
Review of Smith, R., Kingdoms of the Yoruba . Africa 40 (1): 84.
1971
Herbert Spencer: the evolution of a sociologist. London and New York NY: Heinemann and Basic Books; reprinted Aldershot: Gregg Revivals, 1992, pp. 338.
‘Okediji's Review of Aladura: a religious movement among the Yoruba: a comment’, American Anthropologist 73 (6): 1481–2.
Review of Friedrichs, R. W., A Sociology of Sociology . British Journal of Sociology 22 (3): 336–7.
Review of Krapf-Askari, E., Yoruba Towns and Cities: an enquiry into the nature of urban social phenomena . Sociology 5 (2): 272.
1972
‘Introduction’ (vii–li), and selection of Herbert Spencer on Social Evolution. Heritage of Sociology series. Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press; reprinted Chicago IL: Midway Reprints, 1982, pp. li + 270.
Review of Turner, V. W., Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960, vol. 3: Profiles of Change: African society and colonial rule . British Journal of Sociology 23 (1): 128–9.
Review of Wilson, M., Religion and the Transformation of Society: a study of social change in Africa . Sociology 6 (2): 329–30.
1973
‘Cultural factors in the contemporary theory of development’, Archives Européennes de Sociologie 14 (2): 283–303.
‘The religious transformation of Africa in a Weberian perspective’ in The Contemporary Metamorphosis of Religion? Métamorphose contemporaine des phénomènes religieux? Acts of the 12th Conference: International Conference on Sociology of Religion. Lille: Edition du Secrétariat CISR, pp. 337–52.
Review of Andreski, S., Herbert Spencer: structure, function and evolution . British Journal of Sociology 24 (2): 268.
Review of Cruise O'Brian, D. B., The Mourides of Senegal: the political and economic organization of an Islamic brotherhood . Journal of Development Studies 9 (2): 333–4.
Review of LaBarre, W., The Ghost Dance: origins of religion . Sociology 7 (2): 281–2.
Review of Post, K. W. J. and Jenkins, G. D., The Price of Liberty: personality and politics in colonial Nigeria and of C. Allen and Johnson, R. W. (eds) African Perspectives: papers in the history, politics and economics of Africa presented to Thomas Hodgkin. Journal of Development Studies 10 (1): 122–4.
1974
Review of Wilson, B. R., Magic and the Millennium . British Journal of Sociology 25 (2): 255–7.
1975
‘Spencer, Herbert’, in Gillispie, C. C. (ed.), Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York NY: Scribner, vol. 12, pp. 569–72.
Review of Mair, L., African Societies . British Journal of Sociology 26 (2): 254–5.
1976
[with Horton, R.] ‘ Conversion and confusion: a rejoinder on Christianity in Eastern Nigeria’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 10 (3): 481–98.
‘The significance of culture for development studies’, Bulletin of the Institute of Development Studies 8 (2): 8–11.
‘Colour in class’ [review of Berman, E. H. (ed.), African Reactions to Missionary Education and of C. H. Lyons, To Wash an Aethiop White: British ideas about Black African educability 1530–1960], Journal of African History 17 (3): 467–9.
Review of Lloyd, P. C., Power and Independence: urban Africans’ perception of social inequality and of P. Cole, Traditional and Modern Elites in the Politics of Lagos . British Journal of Sociology 27 (2): 290–1.
1977
‘Conversion and tradition in two African societies: Ijebu and Buganda’, Past and Present 77: 108–41.
Review of Barrett, S. R., Two Villages on Stilts: economic and family change in Nigeria . Canadian Journal of African Studies 11 (1): 145–7.
Review of Fox, R.. A. S. A. Studies, vol. 1: Biosocial anthropology, of M. Bloch, A. S. A. Studies, vol 2: Marxist analysis and social anthropology, and of R. Willis, A. S. A. Studies, vol 3: The interpretation of symbolism . British Journal of Sociology 28 (1): 111–12.
1978
‘ Ọlaju: a Yoruba concept of development’, Journal of Development Studies 14 (2): 139– 65.
‘The Christianization of African society: some possible models’ in Fasholé-Luke, E., Gray, R., Hastings, A. and Tasie, G. (eds), Christianity in Independent Africa. London: Collings, pp. 443–54.
‘Two cheers for empiricism: or, what is the relevance of the history of sociology to its current practice?’ [review article], Sociology 12 (2): 347–59; also in M. Kajitani (ed.) (1982) 社会科学の史的展開: 国際学会論集 Shakai kagaku no shiteki tenkai [Approaches to the History of the Social Sciences]. Tokyo: Gakubunsha.
Review of Baldwin, D. E. and Baldwin, C. M., The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria: an indexed bibliography . Africa 48 (3): 314.
Review of Ben-David, J. and Clark, T. Nichols, Culture and its Creators: essays in honor of Edward Shils . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 34 (3): 61–2.
Review of Thompson, R. F., Black Gods and Kings: Yoruba art at UCLA and of D. Duerden, African Art and Literature: the invisible present . African Affairs 77 (308): 410–11.
1979
‘Kings, titles and quarters: a conjectural history of Ilesha. Part I: The traditions reviewed’, History in Africa 6: 109–53.
Review of Barrett, S. R., The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia: a wealthy theocracy in comparative perspective . Man (N.S.) 14 (1): 172–3.
Review of De Craemer, W., The Jamaa and the Church: a Bantu Catholic movement in Zaire . American Journal of Sociology 85 (3): 698–700.
1980
‘Editorial’, Africa 50 (3): 243–7.
‘Editorial’, Africa 50 (4): 335–40.
‘Inequality and action: the forms of Ijesha social conflict’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 14 (3): 473–502.
‘Kings, titles and quarters: a conjectural history of Ilesha. Part II: Institutional growth’, History in Africa 7: 225–57.
‘Urbanization and urban history in West Africa’ [review of P. C. W. Gutkind, Urban Anthropology, of J. Gugler and W. G. Flanagan, Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa, of H. Wolpe, Urban Politics in Nigeria: a study of Port Harcourt, of P. H. Baker, Urbanization and Political Change: the politics of Lagos, 1917–1967, of E. Schildkrout, People of the Zongo: the transformation of ethnic identities in Ghana and of B. E. Harrell-Bond, A. M. Howard and D. E. Skinner, Community Leadership and the Transformation of Freetown (1801–1976)], Journal of African History 21 (2): 269–77.
Review of Hastings, A., A History of African Christianity 1950–1975 and of G. Bond, W. Johnson and S. S. Walker (eds) African Christianity: patterns of religious continuity . Africa 50 (3): 323–6.
1981
[with Richards, P.] ‘Introduction’, Africa 51 (2): 553–6. Special issue on ‘Rice and yams in West Africa’.
1982
[with Ranger, T. O.] ‘Introduction’, Africa 52 (3): v–viii; facsimile reprint in J. D. Y. Peel and T. O. Ranger (eds) (1983) Past and Present in Zimbabwe. Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with Africa: Journal of the International African Institute.
‘Church history and a Christian life’ [reviews of Kalu, O. U. (ed.), The History of Christianity in West Africa and of E. Isichei Entirely for God: the life of Michael Iwere Tansi], Journal of African History 23 (2): 275–6.
Review of Miers, S. and Kopytoff, I. (eds) Slavery in Africa: historical and anthropological perspectives . British Journal of Sociology 33 (2): 289–90.
1983
Ijeshas and Nigerians: the incorporation of a Yoruba kingdom, 1890s–1970 s. African Studies Series 39. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xiv + 346.
[co-editor with Ranger, T. O.] Past and Present in Zimbabwe. Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Facsimile reprint of Africa 52 (3) (1982), pp. viii + 120.
Review of Beidelman, T. O., Colonial Evangelism: a socio-historical study of an East African mission at the grassroots . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 46 (2): 408–9.
Review of De Heusch, L., Rois nés d'un coeur de vache . Man (N.S.) 18 (3): 617–18.
Review of Fernandez, J. W., Bwiti: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa . American Ethnologist 10 (4): 791–2.
Review of Isichei, E. (ed.) Varieties of Christian Experience in Nigeria . Journal of African History 24 (3): 421.
Review of Wyllie, R. W., Spiritism in Ghana: a study of new religious movements . Africa 53 (3): 91–2.
1984
‘Introduction’, Africa 54 (3): 2–4. Special issue on ‘Interventions of the state’.
‘Making history: the past in the Ijesha present’, Man (N.S.) 19 (1): 111–32.
‘Social and cultural change’ in Crowder, M. (ed.), Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 8: c.1940–c.1975. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 142–91, 827–32, 914–21.
Review of Zwernemann, J., Culture History and African Anthropology: a century of research in Germany and Austria . Man (N.S.) 19 (4): 707–8.
1985
‘Auguste Comte’ in Kuper, A. and Kuper, J. (eds), The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge; reprinted as ‘Comte, Auguste (1798–1857)’ in 2nd edition (1996), pp. 120–1 and in Kuper, J. (ed.) (1987) Key Thinkers, Past and Present. London: Routledge, pp. 39–41.
‘Herbert Spencer’ in Kuper, A. and Kuper, J. (eds), The Social Science Encyclopedia. London: Routledge.
[co-edited with Stewart, C. C.] Popular Islam South of the Sahara. Manchester: Manchester University Press in association with Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Facsimile reprint of Africa 55 (4) (1985), pp. 102.
Review of Augé, M., Génie du paganisme . Africa 55 (1): 96–7.
Review of Camic, C., Experience and Enlightenment: socialization for cultural change in eighteenth-century Scotland . American Journal of Sociology 91 (1): 161–3.
Review of MacGaffey, W., Modern Kongo Prophets: religion in a plural society . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48 (1): 192–3.
Review of Stocking, G. W., Functionalism Historicized: essays on British social anthropology . Isis 76 (4): 619–20.
1986
Review of Berry, S. S., Fathers Work for their Sons: accumulation, mobility and class formation in an extended Yoruba community . Journal of Development Studies 22 (4): 782–4.
Review of Bloch, M., From Blessing to Violence: history and ideology in the circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar . Current Anthropology 27 (4): 357–8.
Review of Bulmer, M., The Chicago School of Sociology: institutionalization, diversity and the rise of sociological research . British Journal of Sociology 37 (4): 603–4.
Review of Drewal, H. J. and Drewal, M. Thompson, Gelede: art and female power among the Yoruba . Africa 56 (3): 372–3.
Review of Wright, T. R., The Religion of Humanity: the impact of Comtean positivism on Victorian Britain . Sociology 20 (4): 661–2.
1987
‘History, culture and the comparative method: a West African puzzle’ in Holy, L. (ed.), Comparative Anthropology. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 88–118. Revised version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 17–37, 236–40.
‘Progression and recursion in African social thought’ in African Futures: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Conference: proceedings of a conference held in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 9–11 December 1987. Seminar Proceedings 28. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, Centre of African Studies, pp. 275–91.
Review of Clarke, P. B., West Africa and Christianity . Journal of African History 28 (1): 173.
Review of van Binsbergen, W. and Schoffeleers, M. (eds), Theoretical Explorations in African Religion . Africa 57: 400–1.
Review of Mann, K., Marrying Well: marriage, status and social change among the educated elite in colonial Lagos . Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 15 (2): 194–5.
1988
‘Two northerners contrasted in their visions of Nigerian unity’ [review of J. I. Elaigwu, Gowon: the biography of a soldier statesman and of J. N. Paden, Ahmadu Bello, Sardauna of Sokoto: values and leadership in Nigeria], Canadian Journal of African Studies 22 (1): 144–8.
Review of White, L., Magomero: the portrait of an African village . Man (N.S.) 23 (1): 193–4.
1989
‘The cultural work of Yoruba ethnogenesis’ in Tonkin, E., McDonald, M. and Chapman, M. K. (eds), History and Ethnicity. ASA Monograph 27. London: Tavistock, pp. 198–215.
Review of Hackett, R. I. J. (ed.), New Religious Movements in Nigeria . Journal of Religion in Africa 19 (2): 188–90.
Review of Hallgren, R., The Good Things in Life: a study of the traditional religious culture of the Yoruba people . Ethnos 54 (3–4): 254.
Review of James, W. and Johnson, D. H., Vernacular Christianity: essays in the social anthropology of religion presented to Godfrey Lienhardt . Africa 59 (3): 422–4.
1990
‘Against the motion (1)’ and [with Strathern, M., Spencer, J., Toren, C. et al.] ‘The debate’ in Ingold, T. (ed.), The Concept of Society is Theoretically Obsolete: a debate held in the Muriel Stott Centre, John Rylands University Library of Manchester on 28th October 1989. Manchester: University of Manchester, Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, pp. 11–16; ‘Part II: The debate’, Peel contributions on pp. 28, 29, 31–2, 34–5, 38–9; reprinted in T. Ingold (ed.) (1996), Key Debates in Anthropology. London and New York NY: Routledge, pp. 55–60, 83–98.
‘Perspectives on nationalism in Black Africa: a Nigerian case-study’ in Hair, P. E. H. (ed.), Black Africa in Time-Perspective: four talks on wide historical themes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 57–75.
‘Poverty and sacrifice in nineteenth-century Yorubaland: a critique of Iliffe's thesis’, Journal of African History 31 (3): 465–84.
‘The pastor and the Babalawo: the interaction of religions in nineteenth-century Yorubaland’, Africa 60 (3): 338–69.
‘Tribalism from East to West …’ [review of Chrétien, J.-P. et Prunier, G. (eds) Les Ethnies ont une histoire]. Journal of African History 31 (1): 152–3.
1991
‘Long-dead sociologists and African history’, Journal of African History 32: 501–6.
‘Maine as an ancestor of the social sciences’ in Diamond, A. (ed.), The Victorian Achievement of Sir Henry Maine: a centennial reappraisal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 179–84.
Review of Hastings, A., African Catholicism: essays in discovery . Journal of Religion in Africa 21 (1): 90–2.
Review of Spitzer, L., Lives In Between: assimilation and marginality in Austria, Brazil, West Africa, 1780–1945 . Bulletin of Latin American Research 10 (1): 90–1.
Review of Steinmetz, P. B., Pipe, Bible, and Peyote Among the Oglala Lakota: a study in religious identity . American Journal of Sociology 96 (4): 1071–2.
1992
[co-edited with Ade Ajayi, J. F.] People and Empires in African History: essays in memory of Michael Crowder. London: Longman, pp. xxv + 254. Also co-author of ‘Introduction’, pp. xv–xxv.
Review of Bloch, M., Ritual, History and Power: selected papers in anthropology . Man (N.S.) 27 (2): 419–20.
‘The colonization of consciousness’ [review of Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J. L., Of Revelation and Revolution, vol 1: Christianity, colonialism and consciousness in South Africa], Journal of African History 33 (2): 328–9.
Review of Fabian, J. (ed.), History from Below: the ‘Vocabulary of Elisabethville’ by Andre Yav: text, translations and interpretive essay. Man (N.S.) 27 (2): 421–2.
1993
‘An Africanist revisits Magic and the Millennium ’ in Barker, E., Beckford, J. A. and Dobbelaere, K. (eds), Secularization, Rationalism, and Sectarianism: essays in honour of Bryan R. Wilson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 81–100.
‘Between Crowther and Ajayi: the religious origins of the modern Yoruba intelligentsia’ in Falola, T. (ed.), African Historiography: essays in honour of Jacob Ade Ajayi. Harlow and Lagos: Longman, pp. 64–79.
‘Smith, Edwin William’, in Nicholls, C. S. (ed.) Dictionary of National Biography: missing persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 612–13. Revised version in Matthew, H. C. G. and Harrison, B. (eds) (2004), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 51, pp. 93–4.
Review of Biersack, A. (ed.), Clio in Oceania: toward a historial anthropology and of Ohnuki-Tierney, E. (ed.), Culture through Time: anthropological approaches. History and Theory 32 (2): 162–78.
Review of O'Brien, J. and Roseberry, W. (eds), Golden Ages, Dark Ages: imagining the past in anthropology and history. Man (N.S.) 28 (3): 627–8.
1994
‘Crowther, Bishop S. A.’ in Asher, R. E. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Oxford: Pergamon Press, vol. 2, pp. 795–6.
‘Historicity and pluralism in some recent studies of Yoruba religion’ [reviews of Drewal, M., Yoruba Ritual: performers, play, agency, of A. Apter, Black Critics and Kings: the hermeneutics of power in Yoruba society and of J. K. Olupona, Kingship, Religion and Rituals in a Nigerian Community: a phenomenological study of Ondo Yoruba festivals], Africa 64 (1): 150–66.
Review of Fabian, J., Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical essays, 1971–1991 . Africa 64 (3): 435–6.
Review of Hefner, R. W. (ed.), Conversion to Christianity: historical and anthropological perspectives on a great transformation. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 57 (2): 453–4.
Review of Launay, R., Beyond the Stream: Islam and society in a West African town . African Affairs 93 (371): 302–3.
Review of Stromberg, P. G., Language and Self-transformation: a study of the Christian conversion narrative . Anthropos 89 (3): 311–12.
1995
‘For who hath despised the day of small things? Missionary narratives and historical anthropology’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 (3): 581–607.
Review of Vansina, J., Living with Africa . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 1 (4): 877.
1996
‘Africa, West’, in Levinson, D. and Ember, M. (eds), Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. New York NY: Holt, vol. 1, pp. 20–4.
‘Problems and opportunities in an anthropologist's use of a missionary archive’ in Bickers, R. A. and Seton, R. (eds), Missionary Encounters: sources and issues. London: Curzon Press, pp. 70–94.
Review of Africa South of the Sahara 1996. International Affairs 72 (3): 634.
Review of Blakely, T. D., Van Beek, W. E. A. and Thomson, D. (eds), Religion in Africa: experience and expression. Journal of Religion in Africa 26 (2): 219–21.
‘The politicisation of religion in Nigeria: three studies’ [review of Kukah, M. H., Religion, Politics and Power in Northern Nigeria, of I. M. Enwerem, A Dangerous Awakening: the politicization of religion in Nigeria and of N. Kastfelt, Religion and Politics in Nigeria: a study in Middle Belt Christianity], Africa 66 (4): 607–11.
Review of Renne, E. P., Cloth That Does Not Die: the meaning of cloth in Bunu social life . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 2 (4): 728–9.
‘Missionaries to Yorubaland’ [review of Salvaing, B., Les missionaires à la rencontre de l'Afrique au XIXe siècle (Côte des Esclaves et pays yoruba, 1840–1891)], Journal of African History 37 (2): 317–18.
‘Life and mind of Prophet Harris’ [review of Shank, D. A. (abridged by Murray, J.), Prophet Harris, The ‘Black Elijah’ of West Africa], Journal of African History 37 (2): 331–2.
1997
‘A comparative analysis of Ogun in precolonial Yorubaland’ in Barnes, S. T. (ed.), Africa's Ogun: old worlds and new. 2nd expanded edition. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, pp. 263–89. Revised version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 52–70, 243–50.
‘Prophetic movements: overview’ in Middleton, J. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. New York NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, vol. 3, pp. 510–15.
Review of Falola, T. and Lovejoy, P. E. (eds), Pawnship in Africa: debt bondage in historical perspective. International Journal of African Historical Studies 29 (3): 662–3.
Review of Landau, P. S., The Realm of the Word: language, gender and Christianity in a Southern African kingdom . Journal of Religion in Africa 27 (2): 194–6.
1998
‘Two pastors and their Histories: Samuel Johnson and C. C. Reindorf’ in Jenkins, P. (ed.), The Recovery of the West African Past: African pastors and African history in the nineteenth century: C. C. Reindoff & Samuel Johnson. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, pp. 69–81. Revised version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 38–51, 240–3.
2000
Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba. Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, pp. xi + 420.
‘Yoruba as a city-state culture’ in Hansen, M. H. (ed.), A Comparative Study of Thirty City-State Cultures: an investigation conducted by the Copenhagen Polis Centre. Historik-filosofiske Skrifter 21. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, pp. 507–17.
‘The Moses of African historiography’ [review of Falola, T. (ed.), Tradition and Change in Africa: the essays of J. F. Ade Ajayi], Journal of African History 43: 532–3.
Review of McKenzie, P., Hail Orisha! A phenomenology of a West African religion in the mid-nineteenth century . Journal of Religion in Africa 30 (3): 401–3.
Review of Ranger, T., Voices from the Rocks: nature, culture and history in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe . Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (4): 861–3.
2001
‘Adrian Hastings, 1929–2001: an appreciation’, Journal of Religion in Africa 31 (4): 493–503.
‘African studies: religion’ in Smelser, N. J. and Baltes, P. B. (eds), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Amsterdam and Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 1, pp. 259–63.
‘Colonialism and Christianity’ [review of Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J. L., Of Revelation and Revolution, vol. 2: The dialectics of modernity on a South African frontier], Journal of African History 42 (1): 144–5.
2002
‘Christianity and the logic of nationalist assertion in Wole Soyinka's Ìsarà ’ in Maxwell, D. with Lawrie, I. (eds), Christianity and the African Imagination: essays in honour of Adrian Hastings. Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 127–55.
‘Gender in Yoruba religious change’, Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2): 136–66.
‘La réponse aux critiques’ [reply to ‘Autour d'un livre’ review symposium on Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba with T. Ranger, A. Mary and J.-F. Bayart], Politique Africaine 87: 209–14.
Review of Sadowsky, J., Imperial Bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria . Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30 (1): 170–1.
Review of Vaughan, O., Nigerian Chiefs: traditional power in modern politics, 1890s–1990s. American Historical Review 107 (3): 986–7.
2003
‘The arts and humanities: between history and ethnography’ in Arnold, D. and Shackle, C. (eds), SOAS Since the Sixties. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, pp. 87–108.
Review of O'Hear, A., Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin slaves and their successors . Africa 73 (1): 139–40.
2004
‘Awolowo, Obafemi’ in Matthew, H. C. G. and Harrison, B. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 3, pp. 5–6.
‘Divergent modes of religiosity in West Africa’ in Whitehouse, H. and Laidlaw, J. W. (eds), Ritual and Memory: toward a comparative anthropology of religion. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, pp. 11–30. [Note: some sources cited this work in advance of publication under the title ‘Modes of religiosity and dichotomous theories of religion’.] Revised version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 71–87, 250–2.
‘Galton Lecture 2003: Spencer in history: the second century’ in Jones, G. and Peel, R. A. (eds), Herbert Spencer: the intellectual legacy: proceedings of a conference organised by the Galton Institute, London, 2003. London: The Galton Institute, pp. 125–49.
‘MacRae, Donald Gunn’ in Matthew, H. C. G. and Harrison, B. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 36, pp. 8–9.
‘Nigeria’ in Hillerbrand, H. J. (ed.), Encyclopedia of Protestantism. New York NY: Routledge, vol. 3, pp. 1401–2.
‘Wilson [née Hunter], Monica’ [incorporating also Godfrey Baldwin Wilson], in Matthew, H. C. G. and Harrison, B. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 59, pp. 619–20.
2005
‘Not really a view from without: the relations of social anthropology and sociology’ in Halsey, A. H. and Runciman, W. G. (eds), British Sociology Seen from Without and Within. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, pp. 70–93.
Review of Olajubu, O., Women in the Yoruba Religious Sphere . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68 (1): 182–3.
2006
‘Foreword’ to Ojo, M. A., The End-Time Army: charismatic movements in modern Nigeria. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, pp. vii–x.
Review of Clarke, K. M., Mapping Yorùbá Networks: power and agency in the making of transnational communities . Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 69 (1): 196–7.
Review of Ellis, S. and ter Haar, G., Worlds of Power: religious thought and political practice in Africa . African Affairs 105 (418): 145–6.
2008
‘Foreword’ to Ukah, A., A New Paradigm of Pentecostal Power: a study of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Nigeria. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, pp. xix–xxiv.
‘Yoruba religion: seeing it in history, seeing it whole’, Orita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies 40: 1–24.
‘Yoruba religion: setting it in history, setting it whole’. Third Ebenezer Adeola Adegbola Memorial Lecture. Ibadan: Institute of Church and Society, pp. 3.
2009
Islam and Christianity through the Prism of Yoruba History. Distinguished Lectures Series. Lagos: Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, pp. iv + 23.
‘Postsocialism, postcolonialism, Pentecostalism’ in Pelkmans, M. (ed.), Conversion after Socialism: disruptions, modernism and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union. New York NY: Berghahn Books, pp. 183–99. Revised version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 88–102, 252–4.
‘A heterogeneous volume of Yoruba history and culture’ [review of Falola, T. and Genova, A. (eds), The Yoruba in Transition: history, values, and modernity], Journal of African History 50 (1): 148–9.
Review of Worsley, P., An Academic Skating on Thin Ice . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15 (3): 637–8.
2010
‘Yoruba religion as global phenomenon’ [review of Olupona, J. K. and Rey, T. (eds), Òrìsà Devotion as World Religion: the globalization of Yorùbá religious culture], Journal of African History 51 (1): 107–8.
2011
[with Smith, D. J., Robbins, J., Bayart, J.-F. and Marshall, R.] ‘ An author meets her critics: around Political Spiritualities: the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria by Ruth Marshall’, Religion and Society: Advances in Research 2: 138–57.
‘Un siècle d'interactions entre islam et christianisme dans l'espace yoruba’, Politique Africaine 123: 27–50. Revised English-language version in J. Peel, Christianity, Islam, and Oriṣa Religion (2016), pp. 172–91, 273–7.
Review of Goble, J., Palm Oil and Small Chop . International Journal of Maritime History 23 (2): 408–9.
‘Retrieving Spencer’ [review of Offer, J., Herbert Spencer and Social Theory], European Journal of Sociology 52 (3): 577–9.
Review of Masquelier, A., Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town . Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 17 (3): 665–6.
Review of Sarró, R., The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: iconoclasm done and undone . Etnografica 15 (2): 395–9.
Review of Taiwo, O., How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa . Africa 81 (3): 517–18.
Review of Tishken, J. E., Falola, T. and Akinyemi, A. (eds), Sango in Africa and the African Diaspora. Africa 81 (2): 340–1.
2013
‘Los tres círculos de la religión yoruba’, Caminos: revista cubana de pensamiento socioteológico 68–9: 32–9.
2014
Book debate [with Noll, M. A., Willis, J. and Peterson, D. R.] on Peterson, D. R., Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: a history of dissent c.1935–1972. Social Sciences and Missions 272–5 (2–3): 267–80.
Review of Hucks, T. E., Yoruba traditions and African American religious nationalism . American Historical Review 119 (5): 1713–14.
2015
Christianity, Islam, and Oria Religion: three traditions in comparison and interaction. Oakland CA: University of California Press, pp. 312.
‘George Clement Bond, 1936–2014’, Africa 85 (1): 183–4.
‘J. F. Ade Ajayi: a memorial’, Africa 85 (4): 745–9.
‘Preface: a drummer's tale: Àjàká of Ọ̀tà’ in Villepastour, A. (ed.), The Yorùbá God of Drumming: transatlantic perspectives on the wood that talks. Jackson MI: University Press of Mississippi, pp. ix–xxv.
Review of Drønen, T. S., Pentecostalism, Globalisation, and Islam in Northern Cameroon: megachurches in the making? PentecoStudies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Research on the Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements 14 (1): 144–5.
Review of Hogan, E. M., Cross and Scalpel: Jean-Marie Coquard among the Egba of Yorubaland. Social Sciences and Missions 28 (3–4): 407–8.
2016
‘Similarity and difference, context and tradition, in contemporary religious movements in West Africa’. Africa 86 (forthcoming).
Letters from Liberia. London: International African Institute and SOAS, University of London (forthcoming).
