Sisters in spirit : Christianity, affect, and community building in East Africa, 1860-1970 / Andreana C. Prichard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African history and culturePublisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]Description: xiii, 339 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611862409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781609175221 (pdf)
  • 9781628952926 (epub)
  • 9781628962925 (kindle)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BV3530 PRI 2017
Contents:
Introduction. Affecting missions -- Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in nineteenth-century Britain and East Africa -- From slaves to Christian mothers : developing a doctrine of female evangelism, 1863-1877 -- "Industrials" and "schoolgirls" : bonds of personal dependency and the Mbweni Girls' School, 1877-1890 -- Networks of affective spirituality : evangelism and expansion, 1890-1930 -- Of marriages and mimbas : minding the borders of the Christian community, 1910-1930 -- "I am a spiritual mother" : affect, celibacy, and social reproduction, 1920-1970 -- The intimacies of national belonging : community building in post-independence Tanzania, 1960-1970.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.

Introduction. Affecting missions -- Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in nineteenth-century Britain and East Africa -- From slaves to Christian mothers : developing a doctrine of female evangelism, 1863-1877 -- "Industrials" and "schoolgirls" : bonds of personal dependency and the Mbweni Girls' School, 1877-1890 -- Networks of affective spirituality : evangelism and expansion, 1890-1930 -- Of marriages and mimbas : minding the borders of the Christian community, 1910-1930 -- "I am a spiritual mother" : affect, celibacy, and social reproduction, 1920-1970 -- The intimacies of national belonging : community building in post-independence Tanzania, 1960-1970.

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