Peter Pels: 1 book
A Politics of Presence
Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the...
