Cast as Written: Protestant Missionaries and their Translation of Molimo as the Christian God in 19th-century Southern Africa
This essay reads the 19th-century Protestant Christian missionary archive in order to explore how it deals with translating the term 'molimo' as (the Christian) God. It shows that this work of translation rests upon a binary division that Protestant Christian missionaries make between the...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
ASRSA
[2019]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sotho
/ Idea of God
/ Protestantism
/ Missionary
/ Bible
/ Translation
/ Sotho-Tswana languages
/ Materiality
/ God
/ Conception
/ Inwardness
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| IxTheo Classification: | BB Indigenous religions KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDD Protestant Church NBC Doctrine of God RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Protestant Missionaries
B Translation B Southern Africa B Writing B Speech B molimo |
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