The evangelization of slaves and Catholic origins in eastern Africa
By: Paul V. Kollman.
Series: American Society of Missiology series
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Maryknoll, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781570756269
Subjects: Congregation of the Holy Ghost -- Missions -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 19th century.; Slaves -- Religious life -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 19th century.; Africa, Eastern -- Church history -- 19th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Disclosures : an unnerving appeal, an anxious guideline, a revealing memory; value: Slave evangelization and African mission history; value: Beyond culture and conversion : the practices and effects of slave evangelization; value: Sources for slave evangelization and their interpretation; value: Types of Spiritan writings; value: Interpreting the Spiritans' writings; value: The dynamic setting of slave evangelization; value: Omani expansion, Christian missions, and European colonialism; value: The expansion of slavery in nineteenth-century eastern Africa; value: The Spiritans and the Africans they sought to change; value: The Spiritan missionaries who came to eastern Africa; value: Nineteenth-century missionaries and Africa; value: The "French mission" and relations with Omanis and others in Zanzibar; value: Spiritan social origins; value: Formation in the congregation of the Holy Ghost; value: The Spiritan approach to slavery; value: Spiritan exposure to social reform; value: The Africans evangelized by the Spiritans; value: Undergoing and representing slavery in eastern Africa; value: Naming slavery in eastern Africa; value: The complexity of slave experiences in eastern Africa; value: The Spiritans and slaves upon arriving at the mission; value: Missionary and African approaches to labor and space; value: Forming the Christian nucleus at Zanzibar : the Catholic Church returns to eastern Africa, 1860-1868; value: The early years of the Catholic mission at Zanzibar; value: The Spiritans at Zanzibar; value: The rhetoric of Spiritan slave evangelization; value: The Spiritan shape of the Zanzibar mission; value: Liturgical prayer and sacraments; value: School; value: Learning to work; value: The salience of agricultural labor; value: Africans in the missionary archive : insights of young workers, piety, and escapes; value: Suéma : fact and fiction; value: Claiming la grande terre for Christ : the move to Bagamoyo, 1868-1877; value: The Spiritans at Zanzibar and Bagamoyo : a reputation for practical evangelization; value: The missionary foundation at Bagamoyo; value: Bagamoyo's agricultural colony; value: The minor seminary (le Petit séminaire); value: Liturgy and boundaries at Bagamoyo; value: The chapter of 1870; value: St. Joseph Village; value: From Bagamoyo to the interior; value: The Spiritan strategy at Bagamoyo; value: The new place of formation : climate and space in Bagamoyo's milieu; value: Labor after the move to Bagamoyo; value: The Spiritans keep slaves at Bagamoyo?; value: Laboring, learning, and fleeing : African experiences at the Catholic missions, 1868-1877; value: The children at the orphanages and the Christian villagers; value: Interpreting escapes from Bagamoyo in the 1870s; value: Life in the formation programs; value: Loyalty among African Catholics; value: Diverse responses to missionary evangelization; value: The move to the interior, 1877-1889 : triumph, crises, and attempted reform; value: African Catholics asserting themselves : the first catechist and a Eucharistic dispute; value: The expansion of Catholic missions in eastern Africa; value: The interior missions; value: Courmont's achievements; value: Successors to horner; value: Continuity in forming the Noyau : education and labor in the late 1870s and 1880s; value: Challenges to the Spiritan program from Europeans; value: Unrest at the missions in the early 1880s; value: The Spiritan chapter of 1884; value: Implementing Leroy's plan; value: African Catholics at Spiritan missions in the late 1870s and 1880s; value: Understanding the emergence of collective African Catholic identity; value: The Christian villages of the interior; value: Historical processes of identity formation : agency and incongruities; value: Melchior and Joseph; value: Former slaves in Spiritan formation in the 1870s and 1880s; value: Another try at forming African Spiritans : the Agregés; value: The women baptizers / Léon Hilarion; value: The aftermath of slave evangelization; value: Slave evangelization and Catholic identity in eastern Africa; value: The implications of Spiritan missionary practices; value: Evaluating the Spiritan missionary strategy; value: The theological and sociological sources of Spiritan practices; value: Spiritan dramas and modern subjectivity; value: Slave evangelization and the emergence of African Catholics; value: Strong individuals and slave evangelization; value: Collective identity and oppositional consciousness : forming the church.