On the Colonial History of the Ideas of God(s) in Africa: A Case of the Contradictions between Missionaries and an Explorer on the Cameroonian Coast
This contribution examines contested ideas of god(s) as held by Protestant missionaries and the German explorer Hugo Zöller in the early colonial period of Cameroon and in neighbouring West African countries in the 1880s. While many present studies on African Traditional Religion(s) tend to perpetua...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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Journal of religion in Africa
Year: 2023, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 78-104 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cameroon
/ Traditionelle afrikanische Religion
/ Zöller, Hugo 1852-1933
/ Idea of God
/ Reception
/ Paul, Carl 1857-1927
/ Wurm, Paul 1829-1911
/ History 1884-1904
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RelBib Classification: | BS Traditional African religions CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBC Doctrine of God RJ Mission; missiology |
Further subjects: | B
idea of god
B Cameroon B perspectives B Intertextuality B Colonialism |
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