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Domesticating a religious import : the Jesuits and the inculturation of the Catholic Church in Zimbabwe, 1879-1980 /

Ranging over the century after Jesuit missionaries first settled in what is now Zimbabwe, this title reveals two simultaneous and intersecting processes: the Africanization of the Catholic Church by African Christians and the discourse of inculturation promulgated by the Church.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Creary, Nicholas M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • A Failed Mission, Contesting Colonial Rule, and Ecclesiastical Developments
  • "The Struggle Approximated to the Heroic": African Catholic Women Becoming Nuns in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1922-1965
  • "The Most Important Work on the Mission": The Seminary of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More, 1919-1979
  • A "Do-Nothing" Organization? The Catholic Association, 1934-1974
  • Until Death Do Us Part? African Marriage Practices and the Catholic Church, 1890-1979
  • "Thou Shalt Not Take My Name in Vain": The Mwari Controversy, 1911-1961
  • Bread and Wine, Beer and Meat: The Kurova Guva Controversy
  • Conclusion.