Between worlds: forging an African Mission Church in Southern Africa
Between Worlds is the study of an American mission and its African churches between the 1880s and 1920s. Rejecting Western missionaries as adjuncts of colonialism, it suggests a relationship: the church becomes the dominant partner in the 1880s and by 1900 the mission has become an adjunct of the ch...
| Summary: | Between Worlds is the study of an American mission and its African churches between the 1880s and 1920s. Rejecting Western missionaries as adjuncts of colonialism, it suggests a relationship: the church becomes the dominant partner in the 1880s and by 1900 the mission has become an adjunct of the church. Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyrights Informations -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Maps -- Note on Sources -- Abbreviations, Orthography and Style -- Maps -- Introduction: the Contexts of Study -- 1 The American Board in the Gilded Age -- 1 Capital and Labor -- 2 The Progressive Movement -- 2.1 Congregationalists and the Social Gospel Movement -- 3 The American Board in the Post-Civil War Era -- 3.1 Protestant America's Place in World Missions -- 3.2 The New Foreign Secretary -- 3.3 The Creation of Women's Boards -- 4 American Board Foreign Missions after the Civil War -- 4.1 More Deputations and Changes in Mission Policy -- 5 A New Mission to a "Primitive Culture": Angola -- 2 Post-Civil War Religious and Educational Narratives in Protestant America -- 1 Liberal Theology and the Modalities of Modernity -- 1.1 Transforming Religious Education -- 1.2 The Andover Controversy -- 2 Evangelism, World Missions and Empire -- 2.1 Rejecting Non-western Indigenous Voices in the Early Ecumenical Movement -- 3 Christian Organizations in Post-Civil War America -- 3.1 Youth and Young Adults -- 4 Holiness Churches, Faith-Based Missions and Naturalized Christianity -- 4.1 The Holiness Movement and Faith-Based Mission Groups -- 4.2 A Premillennial Alternative to Postmillennialism -- 4.3 The Fundamentalist Manifesto -- 5 The Education of Missionaries Destined for the American Zulu Mission -- 5.1 Colleges and Seminaries of Choice for Men and Women -- 6 Living a Christian Life at Oberlin College -- 6.1 Theology Training and the Religious Life -- 6.2 Oberlin towards the End of the Gilded Age -- 3 Mission, Church and the State in the Late Colonial Era -- 1 From the Anglo-Zulu War to the Anglo-Boer War -- 2 The 1906 Poll Tax Revolt and Its Legacy. "Between Worlds expands beyond the focus of the previous volume-the British colony of Natal-to the more challenging framework of the American Zulu Mission and its Congregational churches in southeastern Africa between the 1880s and 1920s. This study rejects arguments by many critical scholars, who see Western missionaries at best as adjuncts of the colonial project, imposing an understanding of Western Christianity that inevitably clashes with alien and resistant African cultures. The mission-church relationship in this era also changes dramatically especially in urban environments: the church in South Africa becomes the dominant partner from the 1880s and by 1900 the mission has become an adjunct of the church-an understanding with far-reaching consequences elsewhere in the subcontinent"-- Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XVIII, 281 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-73369-5 |
