ISBN:
978-1-84701-182-4
,
978-1-84701-183-1 /Africa only paperback
ISSN:
2398-8673
Language:
English
Pages:
304 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Religion in Transforming Africa 3
Keywords:
Kamerun Beti
;
Bamileke
;
Bassa
;
Bamum
;
Bulu
;
Kolonie, französisch
;
Glaube
;
Christentum
;
Mission, christliche
;
Familie
;
Heirat
;
Männlichkeit
;
Patriarchat
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
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. This book 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 social and cultural life.Throughout the interwar period in Cameroon, African Christian religious leaders transformed social and labor relations, contesting forced labor 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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Mariage at the nexus of faith, power and family -- Part 1 French rule, social politics, and new religious communities, 1914-1925. Christian transmission and colonial imposition. African catechists and charismatic activities. Evaluating marriage and forming a virtuous household. Faith. family, and the endurance of the lineage -- Part II Labor, economic transformation, and family life, 1925-1939. African church institutions in action. African agents of the church and state: male violence and productivity. Ethical Masculinity: the church and the patriarchal order. The Significance of African Christian communities beyond Cameroon -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285 - 307; Basiert auf "Legal Revolutions and Evolutions: Law, Chiefs, and Colonial Order in Cameroon, 1914-1955", doctoral thesis, Yale University, Faculty of the Graduate School, 2009 von Charlotte Marie Elizabeth Walker
