"What is a European hospital but a pagan shrine?": Missionaries, progress, and the problem of materiality in colonial Uganda
Western missionaries frequently stood at the forefront of altering African systems of healthcare and belief. Medical missionaries often spoke of their work as a means of combatting "superstition" and re-orienting African concepts of disease and illness towards Western notions of causality...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2018]
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Material religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 314-338 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Uganda
/ Colonialism
/ Medical care
/ Mission
/ Society of the One Almighty God
/ Superstition
/ Hospital
/ Sacred object
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDH Christian sects RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Medicine
B medical missions B Missionary B Uganda B African Independent Churches B Museums |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |