Geoffrey Parrinder

Geoffrey Parrinder (born April 10, 1910 – died June 16, 2005) was a professor of Comparative Religion at King's College London, a Methodist minister, and the author of over 30 books. 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.