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Labour and Christianity in the mission : African workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
- Title
- Labour and Christianity in the mission : African workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 / Michelle Liebst.
- Author
- Liebst, Michelle
- Publication
- Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2021.
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- Description
- xiv, 224 pages : illustration; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African labour. African mission workers' roles were not just religious and educational, as they were actively involved, not always voluntarily, in building and domestic work. Focusing on the Anglican Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in Tanganyika and Zanzibar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Michelle Liebst shows how missionaries both supported and undermined the livelihood trajectories of Africans. Revealing the changing nature of relations over time between missionaries - who referred to referred to themselves as "workers" - and the African mission workers, including teachers and priests - whom missionaries referred to as "helpers" - reflected broader political transformations, and this innovative study of missions' role in society adds a critical dimension to our understanding of their function and socio-economic impact and the history of Christianity in Africa.
- Series Statement
- Religion in transforming Africa, 2398-8673
- Uniform Title
- Religion in transforming Africa.
- Subject
- Universities' Mission to Central Africa > Employees > History
- Universities' Mission to Central Africa
- To 1964
- Anglican Communion > Missions > History. > Tanzania
- Anglican Communion > Missions > History. > Tanzania > Zanzibar
- Manpower > Africa > History
- Christianity > Economic aspects > Africa
- Anglican Communion > Missions
- Christianity > Economic aspects
- Economic history
- Employees
- Manpower
- Tanzania > Economic conditions > To 1964
- Zanzibar > Economic conditions > To 1964
- Africa > Economic conditions
- Africa > Religion
- Africa
- Tanzania
- Tanzania > Zanzibar
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-10
- ISBN
- 9781847012753
- 1847012752
- LCCN
- 2021425353
- OCLC
- 1264404516
- Author
- Liebst, Michelle, author.
- Title
- Labour and Christianity in the mission : African workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926 / Michelle Liebst.
- Publisher
- Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, 2021.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Religion in transforming Africa, 2398-8673Religion in transforming Africa.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1964
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-10