Mission Station Christianity

xii, 276 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-25488-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

Reihe: Brill

In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880s, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hovland, Ingie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Ingie Hovland has a Ph.D. (2006) in Social Anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. Her research interests include the anthropology of Christianity, gender and religion, and the history of Southern Africa.