Indigenous evangelists and questions of authority in the British Empire, 1750-1940 / / [edited] by Peggy Brock, Norman Etherington, Gareth Griffiths, Jacqueline Van Gent.

• Superior document: Studies in Christian mission, volume 46
• TeilnehmendeR: Brock, Peggy, 1948-; Etherington, Norman,; Griffiths, Gareth,; Van Gent, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian mission ; volume 46.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This is the first full-length historical study of indigenous evangelists across a range of societies, geographical regions and colonial regimes and the first to focus on the complex issues of authority surrounding the evangelists. It answers a need frequently voiced in recent studies of Christian missions. Most scholars now acknowledge that the remarkable expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia and the Pacific in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries owed far more to the efforts of indigenous preachers than to the foreign missionaries who loom so large in publications. This book addresses that concern making an excellent introduction to the role of indigenous evangelists in the spread of Christianity, and the many countervailing pressures with which these individuals had to contend. It also includes in the introductory discussions useful statements of the current state of scholarship and theoretical debates in this field.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Indigenous Evangelist in History / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Two Selves of Rufus Anderson at the Ordination of Nguzana Mngadi / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Introduction to Part 1 / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Reverend Tiyo Soga: Negotiating Culture, Race and Nationality among the Embattled Xhosa of South Africa / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Other Mr Wilberforce: Sherbroan Evangelist and Chief / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Rev. Joseph Jackson Fuller, Jamaican Transnational Missionary, and the Recalcitrant Baptist Pastors of Cameroon / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Introduction to Part 2 / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Dreams and Songs of Rebecca Rakua / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Who Can be an Evangelist? Teenminne, Waukeri and James Unaipon at Point McLeay Mission / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Old Lena and Wilhelmina Stompjes: The Indispensable Intermediaries / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Introduction to Part 3 / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Evangelists as Ethnographers among the ‘Heathen’ Cannibals: Ta’unga and Maretu of Rarotonga and the Sherbroan Wilberforce / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Writing Ethnographical History for the Oppressed: Magema Fuze and Tiyo Soga / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Anthropological Authority and the Indigenous Ethnographer: Henry Wellington Tate and David Unaipon / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Documenting Change: Arthur Wellington Clah / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Introduction to Part 4 / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- George Gordon, Paul Bogle, and the Martyred Dead of Morant Bay, Jamaica / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Te Ua Haumene Horpapera Tuwhakararo, Te Kooti and Others who saw Visions in the Maori Wars of the 1860s / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- The Trials of Funiselo Solani: Kushites and Menacing Ethiopians of Natal, 1900–1908 / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Epilogue: Mr. Dube and the Governor / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent -- Index / Peggy Brock , Norman Etherington , Gareth Griffiths and Jacqueline Van Gent.