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Sacred rivers: Christianity in southern Africa has a deep history of water and ritual - 0 views

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Mukwevho Absalom 220111948

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    This image from this website demonstrates how highly Christianity is held in regard; it even has rites that are performed in rivers, demonstrating the fervent devotion of its adherents and influencers. Without a doubt, the missions they undertook had a significant impact. baptism ritual in the Mbashe River in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa. Getty Images CARL DE SOUZA/AFP
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The Story of Africa| BBC World Service - 2 views

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  • INDEX Early Missionaries THE KONGO In 1490 the first missionaries came to Sub-Saharan Africa at the request of King Nzinga of Kongo (also known as the Manikongo). They came with craftsmen who rebuilt the Manikongo's capital in stone at Mbanza Kongo (in the North of modern Angola), and baptised the King. King Nzinga's son Afonso (born Nzinga Mbemba) was sent to Portugal to study and amazed the catholic hierarchy with his intelligence and intense piety.
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      This is an immportant aspect of understanding the period and timeline of when the missionaries arrived missionaries, since these were the first missionaries to arrive in sub-saharan Africa at a request on an African king. Moreover, it also emphasises the purpose of missionaries and how Christianity was influenced over the African people.
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Them Who Kill the Body: Christian Ideals and Political Realities in the Interior of Sou... - 2 views

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  • This article considers the changing political significance of Christianity in the interior of southern Africa during the 1850s,
  • y European missionaries to reconcile their service both to African communities and to European expansion, which compelled them to articulate a rationale for their civilising mission.
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      On attempts by European missionaries to reconcile their service to both African communities and to European expansion, which obliged them to create a justification for their civilizing mission, Christianity had a political role in the interior of southern Africa during the 1850s. In the end, missionaries pushed for increased European influence in the interior, which quickly spread and gave rise to colonial power. African perceptions of Christianity and its connection to Europeans underwent a huge shift in the 1850s when many Africans began to view Christian doctrine and paraphernalia as comparatively benign oddities that might be used for their communities' good. They are unaware that this is not the case, though. This is crucial because it sets up how the missionaries gained more clout.
  • Introduction The 1850s were a turbulent time in the interior of southern Africa, stirred by a boom in the trade of wildlife products and guns, an outbreak of bovine lungsickness, and escalation of African-European tensions into open warfare
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  • The 1850s were a turbulent time in the interior of southern Africa, stirred by a boom in the trade of wildlife products and guns, an outbreak of bovine lungsickness, and escalation of African-European tensions into open warfare. 1
  • There was tremendous variation in the experiences of Africans and their communities during the long and gradual expansion of European influence in southern Africa,
  • Christianity eventually became more instrumental in colonisation, but in early encounters between Africans and Europeans beyond the frontier of the Cape Colony there was limited control by anyone over its use and ownership, allowing its humanitarian and universalistic ideals to assume greater currency.
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January 11, 1877 - Document - Nineteenth Century Collections Online - 1 views

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Mukwevho Absalom 220111948

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    The emphasis of the texts is on how Christians began to modify their attitudes about persons of all races and ethnicities. In particular, page 14 describes how European missionaries treated all the freed slaves who were returning to their homes. This behavior impressed the Nigger king and other tribes, and it was evident that they were the most effective at spreading Christianity. To underscore what was just said, christian missions were created in the area at the same time as agreements were negotiated to abolish slavery and establish new legal trade with local rulers.
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