Title: Indigenous evangelists and questions of authority in the British Empire, 1750-1940 /
Authors: Brock, Peggy, 1948-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Evangelistic work Great Britain.; Indigenous peoples; Missions, British.; Church and state; British colonies.; Church and state; Evangelistic work; Indigenous peoples; Missions, British.; Great Britain.; Great Britain Colonies.; Great Britain
Contents: The indigenous evangelist in history -- The two selves of Rufus Anderson at the ordination of Nguzana Mngadi -- part 1. Articulating conflicts of authority in indigenous Christian writing. Introduction to part 1 -- The Reverend Tiyo Soga: negotiating culture, race and nationality among the embattled Xhosa of South Africa -- The other Mr Wilberforce: Sherbroan evangelist and chief -- The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller, Jamaican transnational missionary, and the recalcitrant Baptist pastors of Cameroon -- part 2. The limits of patriarchal authority. Introduction to part 2 -- The dreams and songs of Rebecca Rakua -- Who can be an evangelist? Teenminne, Waukeri and James Unaipon at Point McLeay Mission -- Old Lena and Wilhelmina Stompjes: the indispensable intermediaries -- part 3. Ethnographic authority: documenting indigenous societies. Introduction to part 3 -- Evangelists as ethnographers among the 'heathen' cannibals: Ta'unga and Maretu of Rarotonga and the Sherbroan Wilberforce -- Writing ethnographical history for the oppressed: Magema Fuze and Tiyo Soga -- Anthropological authority and the indigenous ethnographer: Henry Wellington Tate and David Unaipon -- Documenting change: Arthur Wellington Clah -- part 4. Indigenous evangelists under attack in three colonial situations. Introduction to part 4 -- George Gordon, Paul Bogle, and the martyred dead of Morant Bay, Jamaica -- Te Ua Haumene Horpapera Tuwhakararo, Te Kooti and others who saw visions in the Maori wars of the 1860s -- The trials of Funiselo Solani: Kushites and menacing Ethiopians of Natal, 1900-1908 -- Epilogue: Mr. Dube and the governor.