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- Investigates an overlooked Christianization effort led by a group of all-African missionaries, focusing on the significance of the African staff
- Examines Christian-Muslim encounters in Africa before the European partition of Africa
- Highlights exchanges between missionaries and local people inflected by traditional and religious practices, finding evidence for local consternation, rejection, reinterpretation, approval, and adaptation of missionary ideas
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
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Book Title: Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857–1891
Book Subtitle: The Church Missionary Society's All-African Mission on the Upper Niger
Authors: Femi J. Kolapo
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31426-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31425-5Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31428-6Published: 28 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31426-2Published: 28 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 301
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: African History, Cultural History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Christianity