Christianity and African culture: conservative German Protestant missionaries in Tanzania, 1900 - 1940
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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Leiden New York Köln
Brill
1996
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| In: |
Studies of religion in Africa (14)
Year: 1996 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies of religion in Africa
14 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tanzania
/ Mission (international law
/ Protestant Church
/ Germany
/ History 1900-1940
B Gutmann, Bruno 1876-1966 / Tanzania / Mission (international law |
| IxTheo Classification: | KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
Missions, English History 20th century
B Missions Tanzania History 20th century B Christianity and culture History 20th century B Thesis |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Bibliogr. S. 215 - 230. - Orig.-Ausg. u.d.T.: Fiedler, Klaus: Christentum and afrikanische Kultur |
| ISBN: | 9004104976 |