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

Other author Hansen, Holger Bernt.
Other author Twaddle, Michael.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford : James Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2002.
Descriptionx, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects
Missions--Developing countries. --History.
Church and state--Developing countries. --History.

Variant title Christian missionaries and the state in the Third World
Contents Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Pt. 1 Introductory: Christian Missions & Third World States -- Pt. 2 The Caribbean Diaspora at the End of the Slave Era: The Colonial State, Religion & the Control of Labour in Jamaica -- A Slave Missionary & the Worldly Powers: John Wray in Guiana -- Pt. 3 Mission & State in West & East Africa in the Pre-Colonial Era: The Moravians, the Basel Mission & the Akuapem State in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Mutesa & the Missionaries: Church & State in Pre-Colonial Buganda -- Pt. 4 Christian Missionaries & the Early Colonial State in Southern Africa: Converts or Convicts? The Gospel of Liberations & Subordination in Early Nineteenth-century South Africa -- Cape Colonial Officials & Christian Missionaries in the Early Nineteenth Century -- Zulu Responses to Norwegian Missionaries -- Pt. 5 Christian Missionaries & Education: Ploughs & Needles: State & Mission Approaches to African Girls' Education in South Africa -- Missionaries, Education & the State in the Italian Colony of Eritrea -- Pt. 6 Mainstream Missionaries & the Colonial State: Christian Missionaries & the Emergent Colonial State in Northern Nigeria -- Christian Church, 'Native State' & African Culture: The Presbyterian Mission in Akim Abuakwa, Ghana -- The Colonial State's Policy Towards Foreign Missions in Uganda -- Church & State in Malawi: The Role of the Scottish Presbyterian Missions 1875-1965 -- Mission Christianity & Settler Colonialism in Eastern Africa --
Contents Pt. 7 Complications with Non-Mainstream Missionaries in Central & Southern Africa: Joseph Booth - God's Law & Man's Law -- African American Missionaries & the Colonial State: The AME Church in South Africa -- Ethiopianism & Colonialism: The African Orthodox Church in Zimbabwe, 1924-34 -- Pt. 8 Christian Missionaries & Politics after Independence in the Atlantic & African Worlds: Religion & the Search for Identity: Campaigning Against Voodoo & Illiteracy in Haiti, 1939-43 -- Protestant Missions in a Catholic State: Colombia in the 1940s & 1950s -- From Mission to Church in an Islamizing State: The Case of Sudan, 1946-64 -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2001051027
ISBN0821414259 (alk. paper)
ISBN0821414267 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0852557833 (James Currey : pbk.)
ISBN0852557841 (James currey : cloth)