A Politics of Presence

Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-90-5702-304-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 692 g

Reihe: Studies in Anthropology and History

Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists 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, thereby adapting each others' routines in the fields of initiation, education, magic, and religion. It explores 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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pels, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Microphysics of Colonial Contact. The Mission As Movement, or: Creating and Crossing the Boundaries of Home and Mission. Kizungu Rhythms: Luguru Christianity as Ngoma. Luguru Woman or Lawful Wife: Mwali, Marriage and the Mission o Mkubwa to Mwalimu: Mission School and the Commodification of Knowledge. White Magic: The Missionary in the Field of Uganga and Uchawi. Conclusion: The Underdevelopment of Revelation

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Pels