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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Type de support: | Imprimé Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2002
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Journal of religion in Africa
Année: 2002, Volume: 32, Numéro: 2, Pages: 196-199 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
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B Allemagne B Togo B Missionaire B Colonisation B Construction nationale B Langage B Éwé Peuple B Politique culturelle B Tronc Ethnologie B Contact culturel B Christianisme B Nation (université) |
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