Strangers and Neighbors in Precolonial Ghana
The article discusses the works of the first missionaries to pre-colonial Ghana, consisting of a multiracial mixture of European, African, and Caribbean pietists employed by Switzerland's Basel Mission. It explores the problem of human difference in Atlantic West Africa in the early and middle...
| Subtitles: | Special Section: Missions and race in Africa |
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| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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[2018]
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| In: |
Fides et historia
Year: 2018, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 94-107 |
| IxTheo Classification: | BS Traditional African religions KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDD Protestant Church RJ Mission; missiology SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Ghana; History
B Christian missions; Africa B Christian missionaries B Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel B Conversion to Christianity |
| Summary: | The article discusses the works of the first missionaries to pre-colonial Ghana, consisting of a multiracial mixture of European, African, and Caribbean pietists employed by Switzerland's Basel Mission. It explores the problem of human difference in Atlantic West Africa in the early and middle of the nineteenth century. It argues that mass conversion to Christianity was a result of the locals' successful reformulation of the European missionaries' message. |
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| Item Description: | Seite 66: Kurze Einleitung (Introduction) von "Special Section: Missions and race in Africa" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Fides et historia
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