Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	African Studies
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2007
Authors:	Chima J Korieh • Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	314
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-51469-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	0-415-51469-X
Barcode:	9780415514699

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