Title: The evangelization of slaves and Catholic origins in eastern Africa /
Authors: Kollman, Paul V.
Publisher: Orbis Books,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Congregation of the Holy Ghost Missions Africa, Eastern History; Catholic Church Missions Africa, Eastern History; Slaves Religious life Africa, Eastern History; Africa, Eastern Church history
Contents: INTRODUCTION -- Disclosures: an unnerving appeal, an anxious guideline, a revealing memory -- Slave evangelization and African mission history -- Beyond culture and conversion: the practices and effects of slave evangelization -- Sources for slave evangelization and their interpretation Types of Spiritan writings -- Interpreting the Spiritans' writings -- The dynamic setting of slave evangelization -- Omani expansion, Christian missions, and European colonialism -- The expansion of slavery in nineteenth-century eastern Africa -- THE SPIRITANS AND THE AFRICANS THEY SOUGHT TO CHANGE -- The Spiritan missionaries who came to eastern Africa -- Nineteenth-century missionaries and Africa -- The "French mission" and relations with Omanis and others in Zanzibar -- Spiritan social origins -- Formation in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost -- The Spiritan approach to slavery -- Spiritan exposure to social reform -- The Africans evangelized by the Spiritans -- Undergoing and representing slavery in eastern Africa -- Naming slavery in eastern Africa -- The complexity of slave experiences in eastern Africa -- The Spiritans and slaves upon arriving at the mission -- Missionary and African approaches to labor and space -- FORMING THE CHRISTIAN NUCLEUS AT ZANZIBAR: The Catholic Church Returns to Eastern Africa, 1860-1868 -- Timeline -- A new beginning -- The early years of the Catholic mission at Zanzibar -- The Spiritans at Zanzibar -- The rhetoric of Spiritan slave evangelization -- The Spiritan shape of the Zanzibar mission -- Enclosure -- Liturgical prayer and sacraments -- School -- Learning to work -- The salience of agricultural labor -- Africans in the missionary archive: insights of young workers, piety, and escapes -- Suéma: fact and fiction -- Casimir.