Mission, church, and state relations in South-West Africa under German Rule, 1884-1915
By: Nils Ole Oermann.
Series: Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv,; Bd. 5
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Missions -- Namibia -- History.; Church and state -- Namibia -- History.; Germany -- Colonies -- Africa.; Namibia -- History -- Africa.
Notes: Text in English; foreword in German.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-263) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents; title: Preface and Acknowledgements 9; title: Foreword by Terence Ranger 11; title: Geleitwort von Ulrich van der Heyden 13; title: Abbreviations 15; title: Maps 17; title: 1 Introduction 19 2 The Rhenish Missionary Society and the origins of its work in South West Africa 29; title: 2.1 Roots and development of the RMS in Wuppertal-Barmen 29; title: 2.2 Personal background of the missionaries - Analysis of their CVs 33; title: 2.3 The role of women in the RMS 44; title: 3 The relation of mission and state until the departure of Territorial Commander Curt von Francois (1842-1894) 47; title: 3.1 The work of the RMS during the precolonial era (1842-84) 47; title: 3.2 The missionaries' involvement in the conclusion of the 'protection treaties' (1883-85) 54; title: 3.3 Protection as an unfulfilled promise (1886-93) 64; title: 3.4 Berlin's administrative response to the development of mission and state relations in the 1890s 73; title: 4 The progress in mission and state relations under the new Territorial Commander Theodor Leutwein (1894-1904) 76; title: 4.1 The missionaries' role in Leutwein's emerging system of colonial policy (1894-96) 76; title: 4.2 The increase of personal contacts between missionaries and the colonial government (1896-1900) 80; title: 4.3 The Rinderpest epidemic, the land question and the foundation of new mission stations 84; title: 5 The Herero and Nama uprisings of 1904-06 93; title: 5.1 The historical events 93; title: 5.2 Public reactions in Germany and the colonial government's evaluation of the missionaries' role during the uprisings 102; title: 5.3 Effects and consequences of the uprisings 106; title: 5.4 Mission work in the collection and POW camps 109; title: 8 Table of Contents; title: 6 The relationship of mission, church and state after the Herero and Nama uprisings (1906-15) 113; title: 6.1 The political importance of colonial expansion and increasing religious pluralism in SWA after 1905 114; title: 6.2 The increase and political impact of the newly emerging religious societies in SWA 119; title: 6.2.1 The Protestant Church in SWA (DELK) 119; title: 6.2.2 The establishment of Roman Catholic Mission Orders in SWA 126; title: 6.2.3 The expansion of other religious societies 142; title: 6.2.4 Independent African Churches and the danger of Ethiopianism 150; title: 6.2.5 The missionaries' perception and political evaluation of African religious life after 1906 158; title: 7 Missionaries, religious societies and native policy after 1906 167; title: 7.1 The involvement of religious societies in colonial courts and colonial administration 167; title: 7.2 The native regulations of 1906-07 170; title: 7.3 Corporal punishment 172; title: 7.4 Missionaries' intervention in cases of maltreatment of Africans 177; title: 7.5 Mixed marriages as aparspro toto for mission, church and state relations 185; title: 7.6 Religious societies and educational policy 201; title: 7.7 Prostitution, venereal diseases and arranged marriages 208; title: 7.8 Religious societies on the eve of W.W.I 216; title: 8 The role of the Finnish Missionary Society (FMS) in Ovamboland 220 9 Conclusion 238; title: Bibliography 244; title: Index 264.