The Locator -- [(subject = "Central Africa")]

52 records matched your query       


Record 6 | Previous Record | MARC Display | Next Record | Search Results
Author:
Prichard, Andreana C., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016079694
Title:
Sisters in spirit : Christianity, affect, and community building in East Africa, 1860-1970 / Andreana C. Prichard.
Publisher:
Michigan State University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiii, 339 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Universities' Mission to Central Africa--History.
Universities' Mission to Central Africa.
Anglican Communion--History.--Africa, East--History.
Christian women--Africa, East--Social conditions.
Christian women--Religious life--Africa, East.
Anglican Communion--Missions.
Christian women--Religious life.
Christian women--Social conditions.
Africa, East.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Affecting missions -- Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in nineteenth-century Britain and East Africa -- 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.
Series:
African history and culture
ISBN:
161186240X
9781611862409
OCLC:
(OCoLC)951854767
LCCN:
2016027499
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

Initiate Another SILO Locator Search

This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.