Introduction / Raphael Chijioke Njoku and Chima J. Korieh -- All things to all people : Christian missionaries in early nineteenth century South Africa / Roger B. Beck -- The CMS Niger Mission, extra-territorial forces of change, and the expansion of British influence in the Niger Delta during the nineteenth century / Waibinte Wariboko -- Catholicism, Protestantism, and imperial claims in Kabaka's Buganda, 1860-1907 -- Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : the intersection of church, state, and Kongo performance in the Belgian Congo / Yolanda Covington-Ward -- To hang a ladder in the air : talking about African education in Edinburgh in 1910 / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Mission, colonialism, and the supplanting of African religious and medical practices / Jude C. Aguwa -- Conflict and compromise : Christian missions and new formations in colonial Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh -- West Indian Church in West Africa : the Pongas Mission among the Susus and its portrayal of blackness, 1851-1935 / Waibinte Wariboko -- Collaborative landscape : missions, states, and their subjects in the making of northeastern Tanzania's terrain, 1870-1914 / Michael McInneshin -- Anglo-American and European missionary encounters in southern Sudan, 1898-present / Gideon Mailer.
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Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evang.
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Missions, states, and European expansion in Africa.
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Church and state-- Africa-- History-- 19th century, Congresses.
Missions-- Africa-- History-- 19th century, Congresses.
Church and state.
Missions.
RELIGION-- Christian Ministry-- Missions.
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Africa, History, 19th century, Congresses.
Europe, Colonies, Africa, History, 19th century, Congresses.