Name: African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier: Tswana Evangelists and Their Communities During the Nineteenth Century
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Author: Holter, Knut ; Volz, Stephen C.
ISBN: 9781433109492

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African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier: Tswana Evangelists and Their Communities During the Nineteenth Century

Type

Physical Book

Author

Stephen C. Volz

Illustrated by

Knut Holter

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Year

2011

Language

English

Pages

296

Format

Hardcover

Weight

1.30

ISBN13

9781433109492

Synopsis "African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier: Tswana Evangelists and Their Communities During the Nineteenth Century"

African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier is an exploration of the profound social and personal changes that accompanied the expansion of European influence in the interior of southern Africa during the nineteenth century, focusing on the role played by Tswana Christian evangelists. Drawing on a wide range of sources and locating African converts rather than European missionaries at the center of the story, this book provides new insights into the development of African-European relations and the impact of colonization. Although Christian missions played an important role in European expansion, this book reveals that during much of the nineteenth century, Europeans had little control over the various ways that Africans interpreted, assimilated, and propagated Christianity, and how Christianity acquired meanings contrary to its presumed role as a vehicle for European imperialism. Africans associated Christianity with Europeans, but the implications of that association changed as relations between Africans and Europeans changed. More influential was the association of Christianity with certain individuals or families and their employment of Christianity as an element of politico-religious authority. Africans transformed Christianity as they were themselves transformed by it, and their efforts were usually motivated by very personal or local concerns, often despite - rather than because of - Christianity's association with foreigners. Given its broad chronological scope and accessible prose, this book will be useful to undergraduate students studying the history of Africa, religion, or colonialism. The book's detailed references to specific people and places in southern Africa also make it of interest to students and other readers residing in that region with an interest in the history of their churches or particular communities.

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