1st Edition
Swedish Protestant Missionaries and Social Reordering in King Leopold's Congo
By Simon Larsson
Copyright 2027
258 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This book offers a historical-anthropological study of Swedish Protestant missionaries in the Congo Free State during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines how a Swedish mission society, working in the Congo Free State during the brutal regime of King Leopold II, attempted to reshape Congolese society by transplanting Western Christian ideals into the local... Read more
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Background 3. Education and translation: Changing the world to fit the language 4. Work, individualization, and the moral economies of the mission 5. Family 6. The Congregation 7. The Christian Mission and the State 8. Mission as an institutional project Index
Biography
Simon Larsson is a researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on religion, technology, governance, institutions, and social transformation.
