Johannes Rebmann
Subtitle: a servant of God in Africa before the rise of Western colonialism
By: Steven Paas
Series: Edition afem. Mission academics -- 32; Edition AFEM -- 32.
Publisher: VTR, Verlag für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft; VKW, Culture and Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Nürnberg; Bonn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9783862690299; 9783941750487
Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; Slavery and Islam; Church Missionary Society; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-238) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Spiritual roots; title: 3. From Gerlingen to Islington (1820-1846); title: 4. With Johann Ludwig Krapf (1846-1855); title: 5. From Cairo to Zanzibar (1851-1859); title: 6. Fruits and loss; title: 7. Lonely and enduring (1866-1875); title: 8. The last passages (1875-1876); title: 9. Language worker; title: 10. The context of Muslim slavery; title: 11. Missionary; title: 12. Herald; title: Bibliography; title: Appendix I: Salimini's Chichewa; title: Appendix II: A history of Chchewa lexicography; title: Index.