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1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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| Series |
African history and culture |
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African history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Open access. |
| Summary |
"In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among disparate communities on the adjacent Tanzanian mainland. Prichard illustrates how the mission's unique theology and the demographics of its adherents produced cohorts of African Christian women who, in the face of linguistic and cultural dissimilarity, used the daily performance of a certain set of "civilized" Christian values and affective relationships to evangelize to new inquirers. The UMCA's "sisters in spirit" ultimately forged a united spiritual community that spanned discontiguous mission stations across Tanzania and Zanzibar, incorporated diverse ethnolinguistic communities, and transcended generations. Focusing on the emotional and personal dimensions of their lives and on the relationships of affective spirituality that grew up among them, Prichard tells stories that are vital to our understanding of Tanzanian history, the history of religion and Christian missions in Africa, the development of cultural nationalisms, and the intellectual histories of African women"--Publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Affecting missions -- Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in Britain and East Africa, 1830-1865 -- From slaves to Christian mothers : developing a doctrine of female evangelism, 1863-1877 -- Industrials and schoolgirls : bonds of personal dependency and the Mbweni Girls' School, 1877-1890 -- Networks of affective spirituality : evangelism and expansion, 1890-1930 -- Of marriages and mimbas : minding the borders of the Christian community, 1910-1930 -- "I am a spiritual mother" : affect, celibacy, and social reproduction, 1920-1970 -- The intimacies of national belonging : community building in post-independence Tanzania, 1960-1970. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Universities' Mission to Central Africa -- History.
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Christian women -- Religious life -- Africa, East.
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Christian women -- Africa, East -- Social conditions.
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Women, Black -- Religious life -- Africa, East.
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Anglican Communion -- Missions -- Africa, East -- History.
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Christian communities -- Tanzania -- History.
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Christian communities -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Evangelikale Bewegung.
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Frau.
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Mission.
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Ostafrika.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General.
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| Indexed Term |
Affective community Affective spirituality Gendered intellectual histories Black Christian women Tanzania Zanzibar |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Prichard, Andreana C. Sisters in spirit. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2017 9781609175221 (DLC) 2016027499 (OCoLC)951854767 |
| ISBN |
9781609175221 (electronic book) |
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1609175220 (electronic book) |
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9781628952926 (electronic book) |
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162895292X (electronic book) |
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9781628962925 (kindle) |
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1628962925 (kindle) |
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