Geoffrey Parrinder

Professor Edward Geoffrey Simons Parrinder was educated at Richmond College (London) and Faculté Libre de Théologie Protestante (Montpellier). He became Professor of Comparative Study of Religions, at King’s College (University of London). He is also the author of West African Religion (1949), African Ideas of God (1961), Religion in Africa (1969), Avatar and Incarnation (1970), The Indestructible Soul (1973), The Wisdom of the Forest (1975), Encountering World Religions (1987) and A Concise Encyclopedia of Christianity (1998).