ISBN:
9004104976
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 239 S
,
25 cm
Series Statement:
Studies of religion in Africa 14
Series Statement:
Studies of religion in Africa
Uniform Title:
Christentum und afrikanische Kultur 〈engl.〉
Dissertation note:
Teilw. zugl.: Daressalam, Univ., Diss., 1977
DDC:
266/.023430678
Keywords:
Missions
;
Tanzania
;
History
;
20th century
;
Missions, English
;
History
;
20th century
;
Christianity and culture
;
History
;
20th century
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Tansania
;
Mission
;
Evangelische Kirche
;
Deutschland
;
Geschichte 1900-1940
;
Gutmann, Bruno 1876-1966
;
Tansania
;
Mission
Abstract:
The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the perspective of the local Christians, who were not themselves interested in Africanization as such. One can thus find some missionaries defending - against the elected African Church leadership - the right of the Chagga Christians to circumcise their daughters, and Nyakyusa Christians refusing to use African tunes because the missionaries - influenced by National Socialism - professed both love for African culture and White superiority. This informative book, based on local and archival research at Daressalam University, is eminently readable. It features the first historical study of Bruno Gutmann, and provides case study material for teaching.
Note:
Bibliogr. S. 215 - 230. - Orig.-Ausg. u.d.T.: Fiedler, Klaus: Christentum and afrikanische Kultur
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