Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978

Slave Emancipation, Christian Communities, and Dissent in Post-Abolition Tanzania, 1878-1978

Author: Salvatory S Nyanto

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2024-11-19

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1847013589

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The first historical account of the dramatic growth of Christianity in Western Tanzania during the twentieth century and of the role of former slaves in this process. Examining the intersection of post-slavery and evangelism, this book shows the ways that former slaves from a variety of linguistic and cultural backgrounds came together to create new communities in the Christian missions of western Tanzania. It shows how converts adapted to Christianity and, at the same time, shaped it through their translations of the Bible and other religious texts into the Kinyamwezi language, integrating concepts from their own cultures and experiences of slavery. Working as teachers, pastors, and catechists, former slaves and their descendants laid the basis for the growth of African Christianity in the region, and the book pays particular attention to women's agency in creating spaces for negotiating kinship ties and mutual relations with the wider communities. It also delves into the range of missionary sources to show the experience of lay Christians who opposed religious authority in Catholic and Moravian missions, examining the division caused by catechists' demands for equality of status, recognition, and appropriate pay in the context of ujamaa and the turmoil brought about by the revival movement. Through narratives of religious experience from multiple missions and village outstations, the book shows how former slaves created a Kinyamwezi-speaking Christian culture, taking inspiration both from European missionaries and neighbouring African villagers, and became part of evolving rural communities in the inter-war period, enabling their descendants to achieve a significant degree of social mobility.


Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa

Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa

Author: PROFESSOR LOUIS. BRENNER

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2024-12-17

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 184701416X

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This book is a richly detailed comparative analysis of endogenous, Muslim, and Christian religious thought and practice in sub-Saharan Africa. Organized thematically, the book presents a conceptual and analytical framework for the study of religious traditions as complex and constantly evolving social phenomena. The most salient theme in the book is how different religious traditions defined and provided for the personal and communal wellbeing of their adherents. Other major themes explore how religious traditions have influenced one another, how religious practitioners conceptualized and interacted with spiritual entities, how religious knowledge and expertise were acquired and transmitted, how rituals were organized and structured in order to achieve their aims, and how rituals affected those who performed them. Additional topics analysed include the personalization of relationships with spiritual entities, the gendering of religious thought and practice, how personal transformative rituals were conceptualized and enacted with reference to stages of the life cycle, such as birth, marriage and death, and how suffering was seen as integral to the process of personal transformation. Overall, the book engages with issues that continue to animate the study of religious thought and practice in Africa and African studies more generally.


Swahili State and Society

Swahili State and Society

Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui

Publisher: East African Publishers

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9789966468239

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This text examines the social and political impact of the Swahili language.


Labour and Christianity in the Mission

Labour and Christianity in the Mission

Author: Michelle Liebst

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1847012752

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Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.


The African Experience with Higher Education

The African Experience with Higher Education

Author: J. F. Ade Ajayi

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13:

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There have been institutions of higher learning for centuries in Africa, but the phenomenal growth has taken place in the last fifty years, first in the later days of colonialism and then in the heady days of independence and commodity boom. Without them, there would have been no development. The three highly distinguished authors have written the first comprehensive assessment of universities and higher education in Africa south of the Sahara. As can be seen from their biographies, they draw on experience from both francophone and anglophone Africa and from teaching in both the sciences and the arts.


The Roots of African Conflicts

The Roots of African Conflicts

Author: Alfred G. Nhema

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0821418092

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This work, along with 'The Resolution of African Conflicts', clearly demonstrates the efforts by a wide range of African scholars to explain the roots, routes, regimes and resolution of African conflicts and how to re-build post-conflict societies.


Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Pastoral Care in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Francesca Tinti

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781843831563

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The role of pastoral care reconsidered in the context of major changes within the Anglo-Saxon church. The tenth and eleventh centuries saw a number of very significant developments in the history of the English Church, perhaps the most important being the proliferation of local churches, which were to be the basis of the modern parochial system. Using evidence from homilies, canon law, saints' lives, and liturgical and penitential sources, the articles collected in this volume focus on the ways in which such developments were reflected in pastoral care, considering what it consisted of at this time, how it was provided and by whom. Starting with an investigation of the secular clergy, their recruitment and patronage, the papers move on to examine a variety of aspects of late Anglo-Saxon pastoral care, including church due payments, preaching, baptism, penance, confession, visitation of the sick and archaeological evidence of burial practice. Special attention is paid to the few surviving manuscripts which are likely to have been used in the field and the evidence they provide for the context, the actions and the verbal exchanges which characterised pastoral provisions.


African Modernities

African Modernities

Author: Jan-Georg Deutsch

Publisher: James Currey

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780852557921

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This is a collection of original studies investigating the multifaceted notion of African modernities.