Returning African Christians in Mission to the Gold Coast
The transatlantic slave trade created an African diaspora in the Western world. Some of these diaspora Africans encountered and embraced the religion of their Western masters. Life in the Caribbean diaspora provided an opportunity for the nestling of ideas that were to shape the establishment of the...
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Edinburgh Univ. Press
[2018]
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Studies in world christianity
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-45 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBS Australia; Oceania KDD Protestant Church RJ Mission; missiology |
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Gold Coast
B Diaspora (social sciences) B West Africa B Akuapem B Caribbean B Basel Mission B mission history |
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