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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Language: | English |
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Brill
[2015]
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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
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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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