Intertextuality as a means of negotiating authority, status, and place: forms, contexts, and effects of quotations of Christian texts in nineteenth-century missionary correspondence from Yorùbáland

From the early 1840s, Church Missionary Society agents were active in the Yorùbá mission in what today is Southwest Nigeria. Both European and African missionaries - often former slaves who had converted to Christianity - corresponded with the Society, and in their writing frequently used quotations...

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Main Author: Nickel, Sandra (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2015]
In: Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2015, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-149
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Yoruba / Church Mission Society / Correspondence / Christian literature / Intertextuality / Religious identity / History 1837-1868
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CD Christianity and Culture
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
RJ Mission; missiology
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