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Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (Hardcover)
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Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (Hardcover)
Series: African Studies
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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,
evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors
address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the
colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between
missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries
and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European
epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans;
and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African
societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of
these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary
endeavours and official colonial actions could all be
conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the
same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies
in their encounter with African societies.
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