"Signa temporum": Religious Health Care, Empire, and Christian-Muslim Relations in Western Tanzania, 1920s-1960s
This article relies on archival and oral sources to examine ideas about religious health care, empire, and Christian-Muslim relations in Western Tanzania from the 1920s to the 1960s. Ideas about religion and empire have attracted attention from historians and anthropologists with varying viewpoints....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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The Catholic University of America Press
2018
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The catholic historical review
Year: 2018, Volume: 104, Issue: 1, Pages: 113-136 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tanzania
/ Islam
/ Christianity
/ Medicine
/ History 1920-1970
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RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history RK Charity work |
Further subjects: | B
Muslims
B Christians B Medical Care Religious aspects B religious Health Care B Empire B Religious health facilities B Western Tanzania B Christian-Muslim relations B Tanzania History 20th century |
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Summary: | This article relies on archival and oral sources to examine ideas about religious health care, empire, and Christian-Muslim relations in Western Tanzania from the 1920s to the 1960s. Ideas about religion and empire have attracted attention from historians and anthropologists with varying viewpoints. While acknowledging the scholarly attention to issues regarding religion and empire, this study seeks to show how religious health institutions shaped the course of colonial imperatives and the relations between Christians and Muslims in the region. This article focuses on Catholic health institutions of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (commonly referred to as the White Sisters), Medical Missionaries of Mary, and Daughters of Mary to show the place of women missionaries in shaping ideas in relation to empire and changing relationships between Christians and Muslims in Western Tanzania. |
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ISSN: | 1534-0708 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cat.2018.0004 |