The realm of the Word: Language, gender, and Christianity in a Southern African kingdom (Social history of Africa) - Hardcover

Landau, Paul Stuart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852556705 ISBN 13: 9780852556702

Publisher: J. Currey, 1995

Synopsis

This grassroots history of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa treats religion and society as a coherent whole. It shifts the focus away from European missionaries and African Christians, and on to African evangelists, schoolchildren, healers and - most of all - Christian women. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable from a kingdom's construction of power in central Botswana - a realm of the word premised, not on western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

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About the Author:

PAUL LANDAU studied African history and southern African languages at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his doctorate in 1992. He engaged in field and archival research in several towns and villages in Botswana. His articles on culture, Christianity, and ecological practice have appeared in various scholarly journals and the Southern African Review of Books. His newest research focuses on representation in the milieu of colonial contact. He is currently teaching at the University of New Hampshire and will be teaching at Yale starting in fall 1995.

Review:

"Paul Landau's fascinating study . . . is among the best historical accounts of Christianity available for any part of Africa."-Richard Elphick, Wesleyan University ?Paul Landau's fascinating study . . . is among the best historical accounts of Christianity available for any part of Africa.?-Richard Elphick, Wesleyan University

About this edition

• Publisher: J. Currey
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0852556705
• ISBN 13: 9780852556702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 249