Church and settler in colonial Zimbabwe
Subtitle: a study in the history of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925
By: by Pamela Welch.
Series: Studies of religion in Africa -- v. 34
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789004167469
Subjects: Church of the Province of Central Africa. -- Diocese of Mashonaland -- History; Anglican Communion -- Southern Rhodesia -- History; Southern Rhodesia -- Church history
Description: "This book examines the history of the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia (virtually co-extensive with modern Zimbabwe) in the period 1890-1925, when its institutions took shape and its religious character was formed. While work among indigenous communities is outlined, the primary subject is the church's work with white settlers. A fresh narrative is provided and an examination of clergy recruitment and finance relates events in Mashonaland to developments in global Anglicanism. Among the questions addressed are those of religion and empire, church and state and the complexities of relationship between the Church of England and her overseas extensions, particularly those covering areas of white settlement. Local developments in religious practice are also explored: most striking of these was the settler apprehension of the vast landscapes of South-Central Africa as a locus of the sacred and their custom of veld burial."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Occupying the ground : Bishop Knight-Bruce (1891-1894); title: A base of operations : William Gaul (1895-1907); title: Unhappiness and paradox : Edmund Nathanael Powell (1908-10) and Frederic Hicks Beaven (1911-1925); title: Finance in context : Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia and the expansion abroad of the 'English Church'; title: Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia : the recruitment of clergy; title: Clergy recruits : Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1925; title: Religious practice in Mashonaland/Southern Rhodesia : English models and South African infuences, local adaptations, and 'religion on the veld'.