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Labour & Christianity in the Mission - Dr Michelle Liebst

Labour & Christianity in the Mission

African Workers in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1864-1926
Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2024
James Currey (Verlag)
978-1-84701-371-2 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Important and broadening study of the way Africans engaged with missions, not as beneficiaries of humanitarian philanthropy, but as workers.



The important role missions played as places of work has been underexplored, yet missionaries were some of the earliest Europeans who tried to control African labour. African mission workers' roles were not just religious and educational, as they were actively involved, not always voluntarily, in building and domestic work. Focusing on the Anglican Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) in Tanganyika and Zanzibar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Michelle Liebst shows how missionaries both supported and undermined the livelihood trajectories of Africans. Revealing the changing nature of relations over time between missionaries - who referred to themselves as "workers" - and the African mission workers, including teachers and priests - whom missionaries referred to as "helpers" - reflected broader political transformations, and this innovative study of missions' role in society adds a critical dimension to our understanding of their function and socio-economic impact and the history of Christianity in Africa.

MICHELLE LIEBST is a Research Fellow at University College London.

Introduction: Rethinking Missions as Places of Work
Missionary Authority in Late Precolonial Magila, 1867 - 1887
Building the Slave Market Church in Zanzibar, 1864 - 1900
Slave Status and the Mission Boys' School in Zanzibar, 1864 - c.1930
"Mbweni girls" and Slave Status in Zanzibar, 1864 - c.1930
Domestic Service in Magila and Zanzibar, 1864 - c.1930
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Religion in Transforming Africa
Zusatzinfo 4 line illus.
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-84701-371-6 / 1847013716
ISBN-13 978-1-84701-371-2 / 9781847013712
Zustand Neuware
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