Research Catalog

Title

Indigenous evangelists and questions of authority in the British Empire, 1750-1940 / edited by Peggy Brock, Norman Etherington, Gareth Griffiths, Jacqueline Van Gent.

Publication

Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brock, Peggy, 1948-

Description

viii, 286 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Series Statement

Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; volume 46

Uniform Title

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 46.

Subjects

• Great Britain
• Church and state
• Missions, British
• Great Britain > Colonies
• Indigenes Volk
• Christianisierung
• Indigenous peoples
• British colonies
• Mission
• Evangelistic work > Great Britain
• Commonwealth

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references

Contents

The indigenous evangelist in history -- The two selves of Rufus Anderson at the ordination of Nguzana Mngadi -- part 1. Articulating conflicts of authority in indigenous Christian writing. Introduction to part 1 -- The Reverend Tiyo Soga: negotiating culture, race and nationality among the embattled Xhosa of South Africa -- The other Mr Wilberforce: Sherbroan evangelist and chief -- The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller, Jamaican transnational missionary, and the recalcitrant Baptist pastors of Cameroon -- part 2. The limits of patriarchal authority. Introduction to part 2 -- The dreams and songs of Rebecca Rakua -- Who can be an evangelist? Teenminne, Waukeri and James Unaipon at Point McLeay Mission -- Old Lena and Wilhelmina Stompjes: the indispensable intermediaries -- part 3. Ethnographic authority: documenting indigenous societies. Introduction to part 3 -- Evangelists as ethnographers among the 'heathen' cannibals: Ta'unga and Maretu of Rarotonga and the Sherbroan Wilberforce -- Writing ethnographical history for the oppressed: Magema Fuze and Tiyo Soga -- Anthropological authority and the indigenous ethnographer: Henry Wellington Tate and David Unaipon -- Documenting change: Arthur Wellington Clah -- part 4. Indigenous evangelists under attack in three colonial situations. Introduction to part 4 -- George Gordon, Paul Bogle, and the martyred dead of Morant Bay, Jamaica -- Te Ua Haumene Horpapera Tuwhakararo, Te Kooti and others who saw visions in the Maori wars of the 1860s -- The trials of Funiselo Solani: Kushites and menacing Ethiopians of Natal, 1900-1908 -- Epilogue: Mr. Dube and the governor.

Call Number

JFE 16-1742

ISBN

• 9789004299146
• 9004299149

LCCN

2015026045

OCLC

913470115

Title

Indigenous evangelists and questions of authority in the British Empire, 1750-1940 / edited by Peggy Brock, Norman Etherington, Gareth Griffiths, Jacqueline Van Gent.

Publisher

Boston : Brill, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; volume 46

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 46.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references

Added Author

Brock, Peggy, 1948- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-1742