Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa

This essay takes interest in a dialectical relationship between writing as affirmation and writing as a system of codification. It explores this dialectic as it relates to the interaction between Sotho-speaking communities and Protestant Christian missionaries in the 19th-century Southern Africa. It...

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Main Author: Molapo, Sepetla (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: ASRSA 2021
In: Journal for the study of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Republic / Sotho / Writing / Ontology / Truth / Protestantism / Mission / Colonialism
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
CG Christianity and Politics
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Affirmation
B Southern Africa
B Writing
B Codification
B Christianity
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