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Igbo culture and the Christian missions 1857-1957 : conversion in theory and practice / Augustine S. O. Okwu.
Van Pelt Library BV3630.I2 O49 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Okwu, Augustine Senan Ogunyeremuba.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Igbo (African people)--Missions.
- Igbo (African people).
- Igbo (African people)--Religion.
- Church schools.
- Missions.
- Nigeria, Southern--Missions.
- Nigeria, Southern.
- Church schools--Nigeria, Southern.
- Southern Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- x, 336 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press Of America, 2009.
- Summary:
- Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in lgboland and the lgbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.
- The subtitle of this book points out the objective, premises, and thrust to the reader. Using oral traditions, primary sources, and the present writer's own life experience both as a Christian convert and a missionary co-partner in the evangelization enterprise, the text examines the missions' programs and missteps, as well as their impact on the people.
- Appropriate for both specific and generalized audiences, this book will appeal to readers interested in cultural sublimation and in the overall Christianization efforts in Africa.
- Contents:
- Igboland and the origin of the Igbo
- Immediate post-slave trade period 1808-1849
- Foreign pioneers in Igboland 1800-1886
- Attack on Igbo culture 1885-1899
- Missionaries and chapel school apostolacy
- Catechist-teachers and evangelization
- Sisters, women-education and social services
- Spiritans' crisis
- Owerri Diocese and secondary school apostolacy 1948.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-328) and index.
- "It is the improved and enlarged version of my doctoral dissertation, 'The mission of the Irish Holy Ghost Fathers among the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria 1905-1956'"--p. viii.
- ISBN:
- 9780761848844
- 0761848843
- 9780761848851
- 0761848851
- 9780761848868
- 076184886X
- OCLC:
- 443095476
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