A Politics of Presence: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika (Studies in Anthropology and History) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

A Politics of Presence: Contacts between Missionaries and Waluguru in Late Colonial Tanganyika (Studies in Anthropology and History) Book

Christian missions in Africa are commonly seen as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly persists because the day-to- day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, and thereby adapted each others' routines in the fields of initiation, education, magic, and religion in Africa by showing how the presence of the mission resulted in a rift between spiritual and worldly magic, and in the underdevelopment of the capacity of Waluguru to manage their own practices of revelation.Read More

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  • 9057023040
  • 9789057023040
  • Peter Pels
  • 22 February 1999
  • Routledge
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 372
  • 1
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