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na-gogana

Church History, History of Christianity, Religious History: Some Reflections on Mission... - 6 views

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  • In the Introduction to his lectures on the modern British missionary movement published in 1965, Max Warren suggested that "any serious student of modern history must find some explanation of the missionary expansion of the Christian Church.
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      Andrew Porter on the history of the church, Christianity, and religious
  • he progress of an all-pervasive secularization meant that missions, if not the churches both that supported them and that they hoped to build, were to be listed amongst history's losers and were therefore unattractive subjects for study. 2 Even the work of so distinguished a scholar as Owen Chadwick contributed to this picture. His first book examined the life of a missionary bishop in East Africa, and subsequently h
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      In this source, Andrew Porter argues for the compromise between the Islam and Christian views in the world.
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    Needs to be an article on Africa.
magadaniviva

Keyword (guns in east Africa) LIMITS: Date (< 1890) - Results - Gale Primary Sources - 9 views

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    Hi Magadani. Click on your own bookmark here. It takes one to a page of search results, not to any particular item chosen from those search results. This bookmark will not get you any marks unfortunately. Your bookmark should be a link DIRECTLY to a particular manuscript. Thanks!
masegomaloma

richard francis burton - 4 views

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    If you are attaching this as a genearl source, don't forget to annotate.
mzangwathuto

Manufacturing crisis: "Anti slavery 'Humanitarianism' and imperialism in East Africa, 1... - 5 views

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    Unangst wrote about the European's quest to stop slavery in East Africa during 1888 to 1890.
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    Hi Thuto You need to share the article. What you are sharing shows that you accessed the front page of the article directly through Taylor and Francis. You need to access via the UJ library and attach the PDF of the article, also annotating where you see mention of slavery. Good luck.
lucianqodi

THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY - The Deeper Wrong - 2 views

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    in this article Harriet was (the author) was invited to church since he could read. in this article it is said that slaves had intentions of murdering their master hence the slave masters decided to use church as a form of preventing the killings from taking place.
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    Can I ask why you are sharing a source from Cambridge? It's not on the list of the sources you need to share. As long as you share the correct sources though, I don't mind if you share additional ones. Good luck!
lucianqodi

CAB 37/40/45 Memorandum Respecting Steps Taken for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and... - 2 views

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    this memorandum reveals steps taken when slavery was being abolished, it also revealed that even though there were slave owners that continued with slavery however, they were warned and informed that it must never occur again.
mokhele_l

European Exploration and Africa's Self-Discovery.pdf - 8 views

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  • Africa was indeed a dark continent, in the sense of being relatively unknown outside it
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      European exploration was sparked by european desire to know about a somewhat "Unknown" part of the world.
  • whistle: his instruments are all borrowed from one coast people.' Ogot asks whether this kind of reporting by the explorers really helped Europe to know Africa better. Indee
  • nding of African cultures, he wanted to understand in order to change. The first anthropologists, by contrast, wanted to understand in order to pres
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  • Exploration itself can be due to a passionate interest in Africans. It has been suggested that David Livingstone was perhaps 'the one explorer who may be said to have lived and died for Africans rather than for Af
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      European exploration was driven by interest in Africans and their practices, This interest also manifested in the representation of Africans as barbaric people- European interest in Africans may have been a tool of an academic paradigm of difference.
  • . The first anthropologists, by contrast, wanted to understand in order to pres
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      A different motive in European exploration was understanding Africa and Africans and preserving knowledge and culture.
  • The discoveries of the anthropologists helped to correct some of the myths-to which the physical explorer had lent greater credibilityabout an Africa steeped in savagery. The anthropological researchers came to provide a different kind of inform
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      Exploration as a tool of dissolution of previously established myths on Africa.
  • cience.2 But another strong influence on the explorers, besides the scientific spirit, was the European romantic movement, associated with the spirit of anti-scie
  • ience.2 But another strong influence on the explorers, besides the scientific spirit, was the European romantic movement, associated with the spirit of anti-scie
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      Europeans in Africa aimed at spreading the european idea of Euphoria- modernization and civilization.
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