1st Edition
A Politics of Presence Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
By Peter Pels
Copyright 1999
372 Pages
by
Routledge
372 Pages
by
Routledge
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Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, thereby adapting each others'... Read more
The Microphysics of Colonial Contact. The Mission As Movement, or: Creating and Crossing the Boundaries of Home and Mission. Kizungu Rhythms : Luguru Christianity as Ngoma . Luguru Woman or Lawful Wife: Mwali , Marriage and the Mission o Mkubwa to Mwalimu : Mission School and the Commodification of Knowledge. White Magic: The Missionary in the Field of Uganga and Uchawi . Conclusion: The Underdevelopment of Revelation
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Peter Pels
