Strangers and Neighbors in Precolonial Ghana

The article discusses the works of the first missionaries to pre-colonial Ghana, consisting of a multiracial mixture of European, African, and Caribbean pietists employed by Switzerland's Basel Mission. It explores the problem of human difference in Atlantic West Africa in the early and middle...

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Published in:Fides et historia
Subtitles:Special Section: Missions and race in Africa
Main Author: Grant, Paul 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2018]
In: Fides et historia
RelBib Classification:BS Traditional African religions
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDD Protestant Church
RJ Mission; missiology
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Ghana; History
B Christian missions; Africa
B Christian missionaries
B Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
B Conversion to Christianity
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Summary:The article discusses the works of the first missionaries to pre-colonial Ghana, consisting of a multiracial mixture of European, African, and Caribbean pietists employed by Switzerland's Basel Mission. It explores the problem of human difference in Atlantic West Africa in the early and middle of the nineteenth century. It argues that mass conversion to Christianity was a result of the locals' successful reformulation of the European missionaries' message.
Item Description:Seite 66: Kurze Einleitung (Introduction) von "Special Section: Missions and race in Africa"
Contains:Enthalten in: Fides et historia