ISBN:
9781787442900
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 314 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Series Statement:
Religion in transforming Africa
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Walker-Said, Charlotte Faith, power and family
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Walker-Said, Charlotte Faith, power and family
DDC:
276.711/082
Keywords:
Christianity and culture History 20th century
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Religion and sociology History 20th century
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Christianity and culture ; Cameroon ; History ; 20th century
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Religion and sociology ; Cameroon ; History ; 20th century
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Cameroon ; Religion ; 20th century
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Cameroon ; Religious life and customs ; History ; 20th century
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Cameroon ; Social conditions ; History ; 20th century
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Cameroon ; Colonization ; History ; 20th century
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Cameroon Colonization 20th century
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History
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Cameroon Religion 20th century
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Cameroon Religious life and customs 20th century
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History
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Cameroon Social conditions 20th century
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History
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Cameroon Church history
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20th century
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Cameroon History
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To 1960
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Kamerun
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Cameroun
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Christentum
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Gesellschaft
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Kolonialismus
Abstract:
Between the two World Wars, the radical innovations of African Catholic and Protestant evangelists repurposed Christianity to challenge local and foreign governments operating in the French-administered League of Nations Mandate of Cameroon. Walker-Said explores how African believers transformed foreign missionary societies into profoundly local religious institutions with indigenous ecclesiastical hierarchies and devotional social and charitable networks, devising novel authority structures to control resources and govern cultural and social life. She analyses how African Christian religious leaders transformed social and labour relations, contesting forced labour and authoritarian decentralized governance as threats to family stability and community integrity. Inspired by Catholic and Protestant doctrines on conjugal complementarity and social equilibrium, as well as by local spiritual and charismatic movements, African Christians re-evaluated and renovated family and community authority structures to address the devastating changes colonialism wrought in the private sphere. The history of these reform-minded believers reveals how family intimacies and kinship ties constituted the force of community resistance to oppression and also demonstrates the relevance of faith in the midst of a tumultuous series of forces arising out of the colonial situation peculiar to Cameroon. Charlotte Walker-Said is Assistant Professor, Department of Africana Studies, John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY)
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DOI:
10.1017/9781787442900
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