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Christianity and the Kikuyu: Religious Divisions and Social Conflict (American University Studies) - Hardcover
Dr. Sandgren, drawing heavily upon oral evidence, reveals that the twentieth century Kikuyu encounter with Christianity produced a series of religious and culturally based conflicts, which in time caused deep, serious, and irreconcilable divisions in their society. At the center of these conflicts were the differing and increasingly antagonistic points of view that grew among three groups: missionaries of the Africa Inland Mission (AIM), the Aregi or those who refused to accept AIM authority and the Kirore loyalists to the mission. By mid-century, these conflicts, central to the Kikuyu society, played a role in the Mau Mau rebellion.
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The Author: David P. Sandgren received his B.A. in history from Augsburg College in Minneapolis and his M.A. and Ph.D. in African history from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Dr. Sandgren has made frequent trips to Africa and has conducted extensive fieldwork in Kenya on local religious and social history. He is the recipient of two Fulbright research fellowships. He has been published in the African Studies Review, the Journal of Studies in International Education, the International Educational Forum, and has contributed a chapter to East African Expressions of Christianity and to The Traveling Classroom. He is currently Professor of History at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in African history and world history. He is currently working on a collective biography of Kenyan high school students from the 1960s.
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«David Sandgren’s book is a solid contribution to the growing field of comparative mission history in Africa; it adds new data and raises new questions about Kenya’s twentieth-century history; and in exploring modern Kikuyu history through careful and systematic collection of oral materials, it represents a methodological innovation as well as a substantive contribution.» (Robert W. Strayer, SUNY College at Brockport)
«David Sandgren uses mission and oral sources to reconstruct a rich history of struggles by African Christians to regain control of their own religious lives. His picture of early divisions within the Christian community leads to a new understanding of the roots of ‘Mau Mau’ in the history of Kenyan Christianity. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of modern East Africa.» (Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania)
«A marvelous historical ethnography of mission, extensively researched and elegantly written. Sandgren explores the many sides of mission, from the motives and theology of the missionaries to the values and practices of African converts, focusing on different generations of African converts and their developing conflicts with the American missionaries to become African Christians. In exploring the resulting tensions generated within Kikuyu society, Sandgren shows how the diverse roots of the ‘Mau Mau’ revolt against the British lay in these earlier struggles for the faith.» (Thomas Spear, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«David Sandgren's book will be a solid contribution to the growing field of comparative mission history in Africa; it adds new data and raises new questions about Kenya's 20th century history; and in exploring modern Kikuyu history through careful and systematic collection of oral materials, it represents a methodological innovation as well as a substantive contribution.» (Robert W. Strayer, SUNY, College at Brockport)
«David Sandgren uses mission and oral sources to reconstruct a rich history of struggles by African Christians to regain control of their own religious lives. His picture of early divisions within the Christian community leads to a new understanding of the roots of »Mau Mau« in the history of Kenyan Christianity. The book is a valuable contribution to the history of modern East Africa.» (Steven Feierman, The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«David Sandgren has made an important contribution to the history of Kenya.» (Godfrey Muriuki, International Journal of African Historical Studies)
«S'il est un livre sur le christianisme kikuyu qu'il faut lire, c'est bien celui de David P. Sandgren. ... Cette publication n'intéressera pas seulement par l'extraordinaire richesse des données rassemblées (travail en archives et surtout interviews); l'auteur se démarque en effet de l'histoire classique des missions en analysant la façon dont les Kikuyu ont retravaillé le christianisme afin d'inventer une religion adaptée à leur société.» (Hervé Maupeu, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines)
«Sandgrens Buch øzeichnet sich! dadurch aus, daß über 300 Interviews mit Kikuyu den wichtigsten Teil der Primärquellen bilden, was aber die Qualität der Bearbeitung der schriftlichen Primärquellen nicht mindert. Sandgrens Buch möchte ich Missionaren, die sich mit dem Verhältnis Kirche - Mission und Mission - einheimische Kultur beschäftigen, sehr empfehlen.» (Klaus Fiedler, Evangelikale Missiologie)
«If you have not read a book in recent imes that captivates your imaignation by delving into the social-political history of one of Kenya's most studied ethnic groups, albeit from different perspectives, then I recommend øthis! publication. ...those Kenyans with relatives and friends from either Kijabe in Kambu or Githumu in Muranga, are likely to better understand why certain families to this day have strained relations as a result, for example, of not allowing intermarriage or by supporting different development projects in their communities.» (Kinuthia Macharia, Modern African Studies)
«David Sandgren uses mission and oral sources to reconstruct a rich history of struggles by African Christians to regain control of their own religious lives. His picture of early divisions within the Christian community leads to a new understanding of the roots of ‘Mau Mau’ in the history of Kenyan Christianity. This book is a valuable contribution to the history of modern East Africa.» (Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania)
«A marvelous historical ethnography of mission, extensively researched and elegantly written. Sandgren explores the many sides of mission, from the motives and theology of the missionaries to the values and practices of African converts, focusing on different generations of African converts and their developing conflicts with the American missionaries to become African Christians. In exploring the resulting tensions generated within Kikuyu society, Sandgren shows how the diverse roots of the ‘Mau Mau’ revolt against the British lay in these earlier struggles for the faith.» (Thomas Spear, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«David Sandgren's book will be a solid contribution to the growing field of comparative mission history in Africa; it adds new data and raises new questions about Kenya's 20th century history; and in exploring modern Kikuyu history through careful and systematic collection of oral materials, it represents a methodological innovation as well as a substantive contribution.» (Robert W. Strayer, SUNY, College at Brockport)
«David Sandgren uses mission and oral sources to reconstruct a rich history of struggles by African Christians to regain control of their own religious lives. His picture of early divisions within the Christian community leads to a new understanding of the roots of »Mau Mau« in the history of Kenyan Christianity. The book is a valuable contribution to the history of modern East Africa.» (Steven Feierman, The University of Wisconsin-Madison)
«David Sandgren has made an important contribution to the history of Kenya.» (Godfrey Muriuki, International Journal of African Historical Studies)
«S'il est un livre sur le christianisme kikuyu qu'il faut lire, c'est bien celui de David P. Sandgren. ... Cette publication n'intéressera pas seulement par l'extraordinaire richesse des données rassemblées (travail en archives et surtout interviews); l'auteur se démarque en effet de l'histoire classique des missions en analysant la façon dont les Kikuyu ont retravaillé le christianisme afin d'inventer une religion adaptée à leur société.» (Hervé Maupeu, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines)
«Sandgrens Buch øzeichnet sich! dadurch aus, daß über 300 Interviews mit Kikuyu den wichtigsten Teil der Primärquellen bilden, was aber die Qualität der Bearbeitung der schriftlichen Primärquellen nicht mindert. Sandgrens Buch möchte ich Missionaren, die sich mit dem Verhältnis Kirche - Mission und Mission - einheimische Kultur beschäftigen, sehr empfehlen.» (Klaus Fiedler, Evangelikale Missiologie)
«If you have not read a book in recent imes that captivates your imaignation by delving into the social-political history of one of Kenya's most studied ethnic groups, albeit from different perspectives, then I recommend øthis! publication. ...those Kenyans with relatives and friends from either Kijabe in Kambu or Githumu in Muranga, are likely to better understand why certain families to this day have strained relations as a result, for example, of not allowing intermarriage or by supporting different development projects in their communities.» (Kinuthia Macharia, Modern African Studies)
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- PublisherPeter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0820407321
- ISBN 13 9780820407326
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages201
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