Light on Darkness?
Light on Darkness?

Author: T. Jack Thompson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0802865240

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In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But should we? In Light on Darkness? T. Jack Thompson, a leading historian of African Christianity, revisits the body of photography generated by British missionaries to sub-Saharan Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demonstrates that much more is going on in these images than meets the eye. This volume offers a careful reassessment of missionary photographers, their photographs, and their African and European audiences. Several dozen fascinating photographs from the period are included.

Empires of Religion
Empires of Religion

Author: H. Carey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-13

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0230228720

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A sparkling new collection on religion and imperialism, covering Ireland and Britain, Australia, Canada, the Cape Colony and New Zealand, Botswana and Madagascar. Bursting with accounts of lively characters and incidents from around the British world, this collection is essential reading for all students of religious and imperial history.

Ngoni, Xhosa and Scot
Ngoni, Xhosa and Scot

Author: Jack Thomson

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9990887152

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"This collection of essays and lectures by Jack Thompson provides a rich resource for people interested in the history of Malawi. It shines a bright light not only on the planting and growth of Christianity in the Northern Region of Malawi, but also on the Ngoni people, their role in that story and in the history of Malawi in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Christianity in Northern Malaŵi
Christianity in Northern Malaŵi

Author: T. Jack Thompson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 9004319964

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Christianity in Northern Malawi deals with the interaction of the missionary methods of the Scottish missionary Donald Fraser and the traditional culture of the Ngoni people of northern Malawi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It looks at Ngoni origins and culture prior to first contacts with the missionaries, at the early life and ideas of Fraser, and at Fraser's disagreements with some of his Scottish colleagues. There are also sections on Ngoni interactions with the early colonial government, and the development of a genuinely Ngoni Church. The book uses primary and oral sources, some of which were not previously available.