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African Priests
African religious change
Assisted Schools
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Bush School
Catechetical Centres
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Catholic mission Waluguru interactions
Christ Ians
coast
colonial
Colonial Administration
colonial anthropology
Colonial Contact
contact
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ethnographic fieldwork Africa
Father Superior
fathers
ghost
Holy Ghost Fathers
indigenous knowledge systems
ipac
Lineage Medicine
Local Power Relationships
Material Mediations
Medicine Hunter
Minor Seminary
missionary encounters
mountains
Pels 1990a
Pels 1990b
ritual practices Tanzania
swahili
Tactile Communication
TNA
TTS
uluguru
Uluguru Mountains
Van Der Geest
Van Donge
Vice Versa
Wage Labour Relationships
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9789057023040
- Weight: 764g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, thereby adapting each others' routines in the fields of initiation, education, magic, and religion. It explores how the presence of the mission resulted in a rift between spiritual and worldly magic, and in the underdevelopment of the capacity of Waluguru to manage their own practices of revelation.
