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Faith in schools : religion, education, and American evangelicals in East Africa / Amy Stambach.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stambach, Amy, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church schools--Africa, East.
- Church schools.
- Church and education--Africa, East.
- Church and education.
- Evangelistic work--Africa, East.
- Evangelistic work.
- Missions--Educational work--Africa, East.
- Missions.
- Missionaries--Training of--United States.
- Missionaries.
- Christianity and culture--Africa, East.
- Christianity and culture.
- Anthropology of religion--Africa, East.
- Anthropology of religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach examines missionary involvement in East Africa from the perspectives of both Americans and East Africans. While Evangelicals frame their work in terms of spreading Christianity, critics see it as destroying traditional culture. Challenging assumptions on both sides, this work reveals a complex and ever-evolving exchange between Christian college campuses in the U.S., where missionaries train, and schools in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Providing real insight into the lives of school children in East Africa, this book charts a new course for understanding the goals on both sides and the global connections forged in the name of faith.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Introduction: Schools of Faith
- 2. One Hundred Fifty Years of Mission Work
- 3. Using Anthropology for Christian Witness
- 4. Teaching English in Tanzania
- 5. Teaching English in Tanzania
- 6. School-Community Partnerships in Uganda
- 7. A New Anthropological Ethnography of Religion and Education
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804773454
- 0804773459
- OCLC:
- 609863180
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