Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857-1891 The Church Missionary Society's All-African Mission on the Upper Niger /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kolapo, Femi J. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: African Histories and Modernities
• Θέματα: Africa-History.; Civilization-History.; Imperialism.; Christianity.; African History.; Cultural History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.

In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The CMS Upper Niger and Confluence Area Environment
• 3. CMS Niger Mission Agents' Field Practice
• 4. Management of Conversion on the Upper Niger and at the Confluence
• 5. Women and the CMS Upper Niger Mission
• 6. A Stalled Christian Transition
• 7. Concluding Thoughts.