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Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa
Title
Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa / edited by Chima J. Korieh, Raphael Chijioke Njoku.
ISBN
0203941284
1135915296
1135915334
1135915342
128106419X
6611064192
9780203941287
9781135915292
9781135915339
9781135915346
9781281064196
9786611064198
0415955599
9780415514699
9780415955591
Published
New York : Routledge, ©2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 302 pages)
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Summary
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evang.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa. New York : Routledge, ©2007
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Series
African studies
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh
All things to all people : Christian missionaries in early nineteenth century South Africa / Roger B. Beck
The CMS Niger Mission, extra-territorial forces of change, and the expansion of British influence in the Niger Delta during the nineteenth century / Waibinte Wariboko
Catholicism, Protestantism, and imperial claims in Kabaka's Buganda, 1860-1907
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : the intersection of church, state, and Kongo performance in the Belgian Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward
To hang a ladder in the air : talking about African education in Edinburgh in 1910 / Ogbu U. Kalu
Mission, colonialism, and the supplanting of African religious and medical practices / Jude C. Aguwa
Conflict and compromise : Christian missions and new formations in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh
West Indian Church in West Africa : the Pongas Mission among the Susus and its portrayal of blackness, 1851-1935 / Waibinte Wariboko
Collaborative landscape : missions, states, and their subjects in the making of northeastern Tanzania's terrain, 1870-1914 / Michael McInneshin
Anglo-American and European missionary encounters in southern Sudan, 1898-present / Gideon Mailer.
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