The Legacy of Edwin W. Smith

1907 Handbook of the Ila Language. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

1915 Ila New Testament (trans.). London: British & Foreign Bible Society.

1920 (with Dale A. M. ). The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. London: Macmillan.

1923 The Religion of Lower Races. New York: Macmillan.

1926 The Christian Mission in Africa. London: International Missionary Council.

1926 The Golden Stool. London: Holborn Publishing House.

1929 Aggrey of Africa. London: Student Christian Movement.

1929 The Secret of the African. London: Student Christian Movement.

1929 The Shrine of a People's Soul. London: Church Missionary Society.

1936 African Beliefs and Christian Faith. London: Lutterworth Press.

1946 Knowing the African. London: Lutterworth Press.

1950 The Blessed Missionaries. Cape Town: Oxford Univ. Press.

1950 (ed.) African Ideas of God. London: Edinburgh House Press.

Archival materials on Edwin W. Smith are to be found in three locations: (1) The Methodist Missionary Society Archives, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. These items include diaries, translation work, journalistic material, photograph albums, and some unpublished material. (2) Bible Society Archives, Cambridge, England. These items include diaries and reports for India, 1938–39, correspondence, and drafts of John 1–6 in Basic and Simplified English. (3) There is a relatively small collection of correspondence and other Smith papers in the Hartford Seminary Archives, Hartford, Connecticut.

McVeigh M. God in Africa: Conceptions of God in African Traditional Religion and Christianity. Cape Cod, Mass.: Claude Starke, 1974.

Peel J. D. Y. “Edwin Williams Smith.” In Dictionary of National Biography, Missing Persons. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.

Young John W. , “Edwin Smith: Pioneer Explorer in African Christian Theology.” Epworth Review, 1993, pp. 80–88.

Young John W. , “The Integrative Vision of a Pioneer Africanist, Edwin W. Smith (1876–1957).” M.A. thesis, Univ. of Bristol, July 1997.