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This 12 page paper discusses Haliburton's book about the man who became known as the Prophet Harris. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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by God to become a prophet, and walked along the west coast of Africa for many miles, preaching and converting the people to Christianity. This paper discusses Haliburtons book
about the man who became known as the Prophet Harris. The Basics Gordon MacKay Haliburton wrote the book in 1971. The full title of the work is The
Prophet Harris: the Study of an African Prophet and His Mass Movement in the Ivory Coast and the Gold Coast 1913-1915. Haliburton has narrowed the scope of the inquiry
considerably by giving us the precise location and the timeframe of the incidents hes examining. It seems that Haliburton set out to write the book because he was
intrigued by Harris, and because at the time he was writing, those who had actually met the prophet were growing old (Harris worked in the early 1900s and Haliburton was
writing in the 1960s); they would not be around as first-hand sources much longer. If he wanted to base his work on first-hand accounts, he had to write when
he did. As to what the author hoped to achieve, thats often open to interpretation. Haliburton was working in the field of African History, and submitted the results of
his investigation (in the form of a thesis) to Professor Roland Oliver at S.O.A.S. (Haliburton, 1995). He was approaching the phenomenon from an historical perspective, not a psychological or
religious one, though later scholars approached Harris from those perspectives. In his words, "When I undertook my research in 1963 I was focused on eliciting and recording the historical
aspects of the Harris phenomenon, especially from those living sources who were already old and would not be available to later researchers" (Haliburton, 1995, p. 453). Haliburtons Methodology: In
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