African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier: Tswana Evangelists and Their Communities During the Nineteenth Century
African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier: Tswana Evangelists and Their Communities During the Nineteenth Century
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殖民边疆的非洲教师：十九世纪茨瓦纳福音传道者及其社区
DOI：
10.3726/978-1-4539-0156-4
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Stephen Volz
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作者：
Stephen Volz
非洲教师在殖民地边境是一个深刻的社会和个人的变化，伴随着欧洲的影响力在南部非洲内陆的扩张在十九世纪的探索，重点是所发挥的作用，由Tibetan基督教福音。这本书利用了广泛的资料来源，并将非洲皈依者而不是欧洲传教士置于故事的中心，为非洲-欧洲关系的发展和殖民化的影响提供了新的见解。虽然基督教传教士在欧洲扩张中发挥了重要作用，但本书揭示了在世纪的大部分时间里，欧洲人几乎无法控制非洲人解释、吸收和传播基督教的各种方式，以及基督教如何获得与其作为欧洲帝国主义工具的假定角色相反的意义。非洲人将基督教与欧洲人联系在一起，但这种联系的含义随着非洲人和欧洲人之间关系的变化而变化。更有影响力的是基督教与某些个人或家庭的联系，以及他们将基督教作为政治宗教权威的一部分。非洲人改变基督教，就像他们自己被基督教改变一样，他们的努力通常是出于非常个人或地方的考虑，通常尽管--而不是因为--基督教与外国人有联系。鉴于其广泛的时间范围和可访问的散文，这本书将是有用的本科学生学习非洲，宗教或殖民主义的历史。这本书详细提到南部非洲的具体人物和地方，也使居住在该地区的学生和其他读者对他们的教会或特定社区的历史感兴趣。
African Teachers on the Colonial Frontier is an exploration of the profound social and personal changes that accompanied the expansion of European influence in the interior of southern Africa during the nineteenth century, focusing on the role played by Tswana Christian evangelists. Drawing on a wide range of sources and locating African converts rather than European missionaries at the center of the story, this book provides new insights into the development of African-European relations and the impact of colonization. Although Christian missions played an important role in European expansion, this book reveals that during much of the nineteenth century, Europeans had little control over the various ways that Africans interpreted, assimilated, and propagated Christianity, and how Christianity acquired meanings contrary to its presumed role as a vehicle for European imperialism. Africans associated Christianity with Europeans, but the implications of that association changed as relations between Africans and Europeans changed. More influential was the association of Christianity with certain individuals or families and their employment of Christianity as an element of politico-religious authority. Africans transformed Christianity as they were themselves transformed by it, and their efforts were usually motivated by very personal or local concerns, often despite - rather than because of - Christianity's association with foreigners. Given its broad chronological scope and accessible prose, this book will be useful to undergraduate students studying the history of Africa, religion, or colonialism. The book's detailed references to specific people and places in southern Africa also make it of interest to students and other readers residing in that region with an interest in the history of their churches or particular communities.