Mission station Christianity : Norwegian missionaries in colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890 /

Mission station Christianity : Norwegian missionaries in colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890 /

In Mission Station Christianity , Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christian...

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Main Author: Hovland, Ingie.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 44.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

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Missions, Norwegian > South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > History > 19th century.
Missions, Norwegian > South Africa > Zululand > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: BV3625.S67 H68 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Theorizing the Missionary Experience: Christianity, Colonialism, and Spaces
  • The First Mission Station: The Problem of Presence
  • The Missionary Body: The Problem of Physicality
  • The Converts: The Problem of New Members
  • Zulu Perceptions of the Mission Stations: The Problem of Intentions and Results
  • The Missionary Imagination: Spatial Christianization
  • The Anglo-Zulu War: Courting Empire
  • Living Christianity: How Christianity Shaped Spaces and Spaces Shaped Christianity
  • Bibliography
  • Index.