African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 1, The Sources

Author: Alice Bellagamba

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 110732808X

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Though the history of slavery is a central topic for African, Atlantic world and world history, most of the sources presenting research in this area are European in origin. To cast light on African perspectives, and on the point of view of enslaved men and women, this group of top Africanist scholars has examined both conventional historical sources (such as European travel accounts, colonial documents, court cases, and missionary records) and less-explored sources of information (such as folklore, oral traditions, songs and proverbs, life histories collected by missionaries and colonial officials, correspondence in Arabic, and consular and admiralty interviews with runaway slaves). Each source has a short introduction highlighting its significance and orienting the reader. This first of two volumes provides students and scholars with a trove of African sources for studying African slavery and the slave trade.

Christian Mission
Christian Mission

Author: Edward L. Smither

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2019-03-06

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1683592417

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A deeper understanding of the grand history of mission leads to a faithful expression of God's mission today. From the beginning, God's mission has been carried out by people sent around the world. From Abraham to Jesus, the thread that weaves its way throughout Scripture is a God who sends his people across the world, proclaiming his kingdom. As the world has evolved, Christian mission continues to be a foundational tradition in the church. In this one-volume textbook, Edward Smither weaves together a comprehensive history of Christian mission, from the apostles to the modern church. In each era, he focuses on the people sent by God to the ends of the earth, while also describing the cultural context they encountered. Smither highlights the continuity and development across thousands of years of global mission.

White Men's God
White Men's God

Author: Martin Ballard

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2008-11-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1846450322

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"This is the first general history of the modern missionary movement to Africa, set within the wider social and political context. The documentary record is very rich, and the author has drawn on many texts, of and about missionaries. A preface outlines European contact with Africa prior to 1700, but the narrative proper begins with the earliest attempts by German and English Protestant missionary societies to set up missions in West Africa, a strategy which related to the end of slavery and the notion of repatriation for ex-slaves. Subsequent chapters examine the activities of a whole range of other societies in different parts of Africa. Throughout, the narrative returns to the key themes of religion, race, culture and commerce played out in the arenas of conversion, education and medical care."--BOOK JACKET.

Africa Study Bible, NLT
Africa Study Bible, NLT

Author:

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 2162

ISBN-13: 1496424719

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The Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.

Cultural Conversions
Cultural Conversions

Author: Heather J. Sharkey

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0815652208

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The essays in this volume study cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries effected changes that often went beyond what they had intended, sometimes backfiring against the missions. These changes entailed wrenching political struggles to redefine families, communities, and lines of authority. This volume’s contributors examine the meanings of "conversion" for individuals and communities in light of loyalties and cultural traditions, and consider how conversion, as a process, was often ambiguous. The history of Christian missions emerges from these pages as an integral part of world history that has stretched beyond professing Christians to affect the lives of peoples who have consciously rejected or remained largely unaware of missionary appeals.

Christian Missions in Africa
Christian Missions in Africa

Author: Ogbu Kalu

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 9781592217779

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A collection of intellectually compelling and emotionally engaging essays exploring African 'versions' of Christianity and their impact on the religion as a whole. Kalu does not simply record the demographic shift, numerical growth and vitality of African churches, but also, importantly, shows how expressions of Christianity are filtered through African cultures.

Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891
Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891

Author: Femi J. Kolapo

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 303031426X

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In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communities were threatened or already conquered by an expanding jihadist Nupe state. In this book, Femi J. Kolapo examines the significance of the mission as an African—rather than European—undertaking, assessing its impact on missionary practice, local engagement, and Christian conversion prospects. By offering a fuller history of this overlooked mission in the history of Christianity in Nigeria, this book reaffirms indigenous agency and rethinks the mission as an experiment ahead of its time.

A History of Christian Missions
A History of Christian Missions

Author: Stephen Neill

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 1991-05-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0140137637

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A History of Christian Missions traces the expansion of Christianity from its origins in the Middle East to Rome, the rest of Europe and the colonial world, and assesses its position as a major religious force worldwide. Many of the world’s religions have not actively sought converts, largely because they have been too regional in character. Buddhism, Islam and Christianity, however, are the three chief exceptions to this, and Christianity in particular has found a home in almost every country in the world. Professor Stephen Neill’s comprehensive and authoritative survey examines centuries of missionary activity, beginning with Christ and working through the Crusades and the colonization of Asia and Africa up to the present day, concluding with a shrewd look ahead to what the future may hold for the Christian Church.

Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions

Author: Gerald H. Anderson

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13: 9780802846808

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"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.