Christianity and African Culture

Name: Christianity and African Culture
Brand: Brill
SKU: 9789004104976-G
Price: 60.05 EUR
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By Klaus Fiedler

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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.

Product details

Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 256
Release Date:: 1996-05-01
Publication Date:: 1996-05-01
Publisher:: Brill
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 9004104976
ISBN13:: 9789004104976
Weight:: 608 g
Height:: 16.3 cm
Width:: 24.6 cm
Thickness:: 2.2 cm

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