A Politics of Presence - Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika

This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, and how they used each others methods and routines to do this.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Pels, Pels Peter
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.1999
• EAN: 9789057023040
• ISBN: 978-90-5702-304-0
• No. of pages: 372
• Weight: 764 g
• Series: Studies in Anthropology and History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Missions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Evangelism, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Tanzania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Africa / East, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christian mission & evangelism, Christianity, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, African History, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Religious mission and Religious Conversion