Christianity and the Ewe nation: German pietist missionaries, Ewe converts and the politics of culture
Focusing on the mid-nineteenth-century encounters between missionaries from the Norddeutsche Missionsgesellschaft (NMG) and the Ewe, this essay shows that the NMG employed a romanistic, Herderian notion of culture and nationhood to establish order and impose power, and sought to prevent Ewe converts...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2002
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2002, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 196-199 |
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B Missionary B Togo B People B Christianity B Nation (university) B Language B Colonialism B Tree trunk Ethnology B Cultural policy B Ewe People B Cultural contact B Germany |
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