Research Catalog

Title

Christian missionaries & the state in the Third World / edited by Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle.

Publication

Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Hansen, Holger Bernt.
• Twaddle, Michael.

Description

x, 307 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Christian missionaries and the state in the Third World

Subject

• Missions > Developing countries > History
• Church and state > Developing countries > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- pt. 1 Introductory: Christian Missions & Third World States -- pt. 2 The Caribbean Diaspora at the End of the Slave Era: The Colonial State, Religion & the Control of Labour in Jamaica -- A Slave Missionary & the Worldly Powers: John Wray in Guiana -- pt. 3 Mission & State in West & East Africa in the Pre-Colonial Era: The Moravians, the Basel Mission & the Akuapem State in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Mutesa & the Missionaries: Church & State in Pre-Colonial Buganda -- pt. 4 Christian Missionaries & the Early Colonial State in Southern Africa: Converts or Convicts? The Gospel of Liberations & Subordination in Early Nineteenth-century South Africa -- Cape Colonial Officials & Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Zulu Responses to Norwegian Missionaries -- pt. 5 Christian Missionaries & Education: Ploughs & Needles: State & Mission Approaches to African Girls' Education in South Africa -- Missionaries, Education & the State in the Italian Colony of Eritrea -- pt. 6 Mainstream Missionaries & the Colonial State: Christian Missionaries & the Emergent Colonial State in Northern Nigeria -- Christian Church, 'Native State' & African Culture: The Presbyterian Mission in Akim Abuakwa, Ghana -- The Colonial State's Policy Towards Foreign Missions in Uganda -- Church & State in Malawi: The Role of the Scottish Presbyterian Missions 1875-1965 -- Mission Christianity & Settler Colonialism in Eastern Africa.
• pt. 7 Complications with Non-Mainstream Missionaries in Central & Southern Africa: Joseph Booth -- God's Law & Man's Law -- African American Missionaries & the Colonial State: The AME Church in South Africa -- Ethiopianism & Colonialism: The African Orthodox Church in Zimbabwe, 1924-34 -- pt. 8 Christian Missionaries & Politics after Independence in the Atlantic & African Worlds: Religion & the Search for Identity: Campaigning Against Voodoo & Illiteracy in Haiti, 1939-43 -- Protestant Missions in a Catholic State: Colombia in the 1940s & 1950s -- From Mission to Church in an Islamizing State: The Case of Sudan, 1946-64 -- Index.

ISBN

• 0821414259 (alk. paper)
• 0821414267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0852557833 (James Currey : pbk.)
• 0852557841 (James currey : cloth)

LCCN

^^2001051027

OCLC

47824041

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library