In addition to two substantial and absorbing surveys of the history of Christianity in South Africa, ambitiously covering the precolonial period to the 1830s, this CD-ROM, produced by the Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa at the University of Cape Town, includes 186 archival documents (relating to the footnotes) and an index of more than 5,000 documents from relevant archives. Part i comprises `Christianity and the colonisation of South Africa, 1487–1870', by Charles Villa-Vicencio and Peter Grassow; part ii John de Gruchy's study of ‘Christianity and the modernisation of South Africa, 1867 to 1936’. Both are synoptic treatments by leading scholars of South African religious history and serve as excellent introductions to the field. A third section contains a study entitled ‘Dark days to liberation’, by James Cochrane and Basitienne Klein which takes the story from 1936 to the end of apartheid. The latter piece has has already been published in the Journal for Theology in Southern Africa (March 2004). The presentation of the material and the quality of the CD is basic and represents a hybrid between new and older publication formats, but it is certainly adequate for scholarly and teaching purposes. The ability to search these documents in PDF form is a bonus, although many would still prefer to read these texts in a more traditional form.