Christian missionaries & the state in the Third World / edited by Holger Brent Hansen & Michael Twaddle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hansen, Holger Bernt.

Twaddle, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--Developing countries--History.

Missions.

Church and state--Developing countries--History.

Church and state.

History.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

x, 307 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Christian missionaries and the state in the Third World

Place of Publication:

Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The fact that many of the leaders in the Third World were educated by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. This book puts together examples of how Christian missionaries contributed to the construction, destruction and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean. They worked through educational activity, and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer and other sacramental endeavours. In the nineteenth century after the abolition of the slave trade the character of the states encountered on both sides of the Atlantic were of critical importance. This was whether missionaries were African, Americans or Europeans, whatever their social origin or status and whether they were slave or free.

In the twentieth century missionaries were often involved in the struggles for cultural renewal, political freedom and economic development. They sometimes made crucial contributions to the movements which eventually achieved freedom from colonialism. In recent history their role in relation to the state has changed but continues. As Michael Twaddle points out: 'Christian professionals from Western countries act as members of humanitarian NGOs in Third World countries and as monitors of human rights infringements world wide. These particular professionals may not call themselves such, but they act as Christian missionaries nonetheless.'

Contents:

1 Christian Missions & Third World States / Michael Twaddle 1

Part 2 The Caribbean Diaspora at the End of the Slave Era

2 The Colonial State, Religion & the Control of Labour in Jamaica / Mary Turner 17

3 A Slave Missionary & the Worldly Powers: John Wray in Guiana / Donald Wood 30

Part 3 Mission & State in West & East Africa in the Pre-Colonial Era

4 The Moravians, the Basel Mission & the Akuapem State in the Early Nineteenth Century / Daniel Antwi, Paul Jenkins 39

5 Mutesa & the Missionaries: Church & State in Pre-Colonial Buganda / John Rowe 52

Part 4 Christian Missionaries & the Early Colonial State in Southern Africa

6 Converts or Convicts? The Gospel of Liberation & Subordination in Early Nineteenth-century South Africa / Doug Stuart 66

7 Cape Colonial Officials & Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century / Roger B. Beck 76

8 Zulu Responses to Norwegian Missionaries / Torstein Jorgensen 87

Part 5 Christian Missionaries & Education

9 Ploughs & Needles: State & Mission Approaches to African Girls' Education in South Africa / Deborah Gaitskell 98

10 Missionaries, Education & the State in the Italian Colony of Eritrea / Jonathan Miran 121

Part 6 Mainstream Missionaries & the Colonial State

11 Christian Missionaries & the Emergent Colonial State in Northern Nigeria / Niels Kastfelt 136

12 Christian Church, 'Native State' & African Culture: The Presbyterian Mission in Akim Abuakwa, Ghana / Jarle Simensen 147

13 The Colonial State's Policy Towards Foreign Missions in Uganda / Holger Bernt Hansen 157

14 Church & State in Malawi: The Role of the Scottish Presbyterian Missions 1875-1965 / John McCracken 176

15 Mission Christianity & Settler Colonialism in Eastern Africa / John Lonsdale 194

Part 7 Complications with Non-Mainstream Missionaries in Central & Southern Africa

16 Joseph Booth

God's Law & Man's Law / Harry Langworthy 212

17 African American Missionaries & the Colonial State: The AME Church in South Africa / James Campbell 224

18 Ethiopianism & Colonialism: The African Orthodox Church in Zimbabwe, 1924-34 / Michael O. West 237

Part 8 Christian Missionaries & Politics after Independence in the Atlantic & African Worlds

19 Religion & the Search for Identity: Campaigning Against Voodoo & Illiteracy in Haiti, 1939-43 / Leslie Griffiths 255

20 Protestant Missions in a Catholic State: Colombia in the 1940s & 1950s / Christopher Abel 266

21 From Mission to Church in an Islamizing State: The Case of Sudan, 1946-64 / Andrew C. Wheeler 284.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821414267

0821414259

0852557833

0852557841

OCLC:

47824041