Christianity and African Culture : : Conservative German Protestant Missionaries in Tanzania, 1900-1940 / / Klaus Fiedler.
The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the...
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