Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415955591 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 302 str.

Chima J. Korieh; Raphael Chijoke Njoku

Opis

Explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. This volume addresses issues such as: missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; and more.

Spis treści

Introduction 1.All Things to All People: Christian Missionaries in Nineteenth Century South Africa2. To Hang a Ladder in the Air: Talking About African Education in Edinburgh in 1910 3.Catholicism, Protestantism, and Imperial Claims in the Kabaka’s Buganda, 1860-1902 4. Collaboration, Containment, and Control: Missionary Impulse and the Construction of Colonial Nigeria 5. The Ambivalent Triumvirates on the Niger: European Traders, Christian Evangelism, and British Imperial Politics in Southern Nigeria, 1850-1899 6. Collaborative Landscape: The Mission, the State, and Their Subjects in the Making of Northeastern Tanzania's Terrain, 1870-1900 7. American Evangelical Christian Encounters in Southern Sudan, 1900-present 8. Missions, Colonial Expansionism, and the Supplanting of African Religion 9. African Agents of CMS and the Tightrope of Mission versus Empire 1842 – 1891 10. Constructing Hegemonies: Gender, Race and Missions in Colonial Kenya 11. Threatening Gestures, Immoral Bodies: The Intersection of Church, State, and Kongo Performances in the Belgian Congo

O autorze

Korieh, Chima J.; Njoku, Raphael Chijioke