RT Book
T1 Christianity and African culture: conservative German Protestant missionaries in Tanzania, 1900 - 1940
T2 Studies of religion in Africa
JF Studies of religion in Africa
A1 Fiedler, Klaus 1942-
LA English
PP Leiden New York Köln
PB Brill
YR 1996
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/198766777
AB The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the perspective of the local Christians, who were not themselves interested in Africanization as such. One can thus find some missionaries defending - against the elected African Church leadership - the right of the Chagga Christians to circumcise their daughters, and Nyakyusa Christians refusing to use African tunes because the missionaries - influenced by National Socialism - professed both love for African culture and White superiority. This informative book, based on local and archival research at Daressalam University, is eminently readable. It features the first historical study of Bruno Gutmann, and provides case study material for teaching.
NO Bibliogr. S. 215 - 230. - Orig.-Ausg. u.d.T.: Fiedler, Klaus: Christentum and afrikanische Kultur
CN BV3625.T4
SN 9004104976
K1 Missions : Tanzania : History : 20th century
K1 Missions, English : History : 20th century
K1 Christianity and culture : History : 20th century
K1 Hochschulschrift