Geoffrey Parrinder


Geoffrey Parrinder was a professor of Comparative Religion at King's College London, a Methodist minister, and the author of over 30 books. At least one book, What World Religions Teach Us, was considered a bestseller.

Biography

Parrinder worked as a missionary in Benin and Côte d'Ivoire for nearly two decades beginning in 1933, and became an authority on indigenous West African religions.
From 1958 until his retirement in 1977, he taught at King's College London. Among his students there was the future Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Books