1st Edition
Swedish Protestant Missionaries and Social Reordering in King Leopold's Congo
By Simon Larsson
Copyright 2027
280 Pages
15 B/W Illustrations
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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, operating under King Leopold II’s brutal colonial regime, attempted to reshape Congolese society by transplanting Western Christian ideals into the local Kikongo-speaking context. The... 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 Research Professor at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS) at Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a PhD in Social Anthropology.
