Frank-Borge Wietzke (Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals)

Power and Conviction

The Political Economy of Missionary Work in Colonial-Era Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element discusses the impacts of missionary work in sub-Saharan Africa. It illustrates inherently more political and context-dependent aspects of missionary behavior, such as local struggles for religious hegemony between Protestants and Catholics and interactions between colonial regimes and the church-based provision of goods like education.

Produktdetails

• Elements in the Politics of Development
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 156g
• ISBN-13: 9781108987172
• ISBN-10: 1108987176
• Artikelnr.: 67127936

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Historical context
3. Ignoring the obvious? The limited attention to colonial contexts in the recent literature on mission impacts
4. Theoretical framework: religious markets and religious pluralism
5. The competitive placement of mission stations
6. Determinants of missionary female education supply
7. Conclusion and areas for future research
References.