Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood : the Basel Mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana /

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Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 18...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sill, Ulrike (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Collection:Studies in Christian mission ; v. 39.
Sujets:
Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel > History > 19th century.
Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
1800-1899
Missions > Ghana > History > 19th century.
Christian women > Ghana > History > 19th century.
Missions > Ghāna > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Chrétiennes > Ghāna > Histoire > 19e siècle.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Christian women
Missions
Ghana > Church history > 19th century.
Ghana
Church history
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • The Basel Women's Mission in the European and the Basel context
  • The women involved in Basel Mission encounters on the Gold Coast
  • Embodying Christian womanhood : 'African' actors in the Basel Mission
  • Christiansborg : acquiring space to propagate Basel femininity
  • Akuapem and Akuropon (1) : establishing new spaces
  • Akuapem (2) : existing loyalties and new options
  • Innovation by women : the case of "six-fingered children"
  • Creating a new female space : the Basel Mission girls' boarding schools
  • Women's speech in the Basel Mission community and beyond.

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