Download or read book Christian Missions in Matabeleland 1859 1923 written by N. M. B. Bhebe and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes missionary activity in Matabeleland in the context of traditional life as well as black and white relation¬ships in Southern Africa in general and in Rhodesia in particular between 1859 and 1923. In the nineteenth century there was some cultural fusion of the Ndebele and the Shona, giving the former a strong basis to resist Christianity. But the personal relationship of Mzilikazi with Robert Moffat, the fear of the British and the desire for western material benefits induced the Ndebele to accept only a few missionaries into their country. The Shona on the other hand wanted only guns from the missionaries to resist Ndebele domination. The failure of the missionaries to realise many converts drove them into becoming advocates of European rule and of the destruction of Ndebele state. Their fervent support for Rhodes and white settle-ment generated an anti-missionary attitude, which, however, must be understood in terms of Ndebele politics during the scramble. The Ndebele were divided between factions wanting peaceful European penetration and the conservatives calling for violent means of excluding the whites. The advent of the settlers and white government solved as well as produced many problems for the missionaries. The fabric of the Ndebele traditional society was greatly impaired, generating a marked need to come to terms with western civilization. These favourable conditions attracted many more missions. But the new white rulers proved lukewarm to the missionaries, grudgingly giving them financial assistance. Yet, with this meagre support, the missionaries laid the foundations of African education in Rhodesia. Evangelically, they met spectacular success among the young people; the old people generally refused to change their ways.
Download or read book Christianity and Traditional Religion in Western Zimbabwe 1859 1923 written by Ngwabi Bhebe and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Christian Missions in Zimbabwe 1890 1939 written by C. J. M. Zvobgo and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aluta Continua Biblical Hermeneutics for Liberation written by Obvious Vengeyi and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was passed as a PhD thesis at Bayreuth University, Germany. The author challenges African Biblical scholars and Christian leaders to premise Biblical interpretation on the experiences of the often neglected underclasses. The author argues that from a comparative historical, cultural and material methodological point of view, the experiences of the Zimbabwean underclasses whose collective ordeal is represented by the experiences of domestic workers are strikingly similar to those suffered by slaves among other underclasses in the biblical world. In the same way religion was appropriated by the elite to validate oppression of the underclasses in the biblical world, the author shows that since the colonial era, Christianity in Africa, through biblical interpretation among many other tactics has been an influential force on the side of the dominant class to advance their racial, class and gender interests. To date, in Zimbabwe for example, the Bible (and religion in general) is manipulated by the dominant minority to justify and entrench the exploitation of the majority underclasses. On the other hand, the author observes that the history of ancient Israel, Roman colonial Palestine and colonial Zimbabwe evidences that when religion is appropriated (and/or the Bible is read and interpreted) from the historical cultural and material conditions of the underclasses, it can be a valuable resource not only for their mobilization to overthrow oppressive systems but also for justifying their resistance tactics. Aluta Continua!!(The Struggle goes on!!).
Download or read book The Ndebele Nation written by Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodes and Rhodesia written by Arthur Keppel-Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983-11-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British South Africa Company and the irregularity of its financial and political operations are dealt with in detail. Keppel-Jones also discusses the development in the midst of the indigenous population of an alien white society and state, from their crude beginnings to their emergence in a form still recognizable today. The reader is led to conclude that by 1902 Southern Rhodesia was already set on the road that would lead to the upheavals of the second half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the racial consciousness and prejudice of the white society and addresses an important question: why did the imperial government grant a royal charter to the BSA Company? The facts show conclusively that the imperial government had little interest in Central Africa or care for its fate except when foreign competition appeared. Keppel-Jones also reveals the important role played by black troops employed by the Company in suppressing the rebellions of 1896-7. For opposite reasons, neither blacks nor whites have been willing to recognize this; on the other hand the habit of the 'men-on-the-spot' of making and carrying out decisions without regard to their superiors in London is a commonplace of imperial history. One of the main themes of the book is the tension between the unofficial imperialists, straining at the leash, and the Colonial Office, struggling to hold them back. Rhodes and Rhodesia is based on extensive use of public records, mainly in the Public Record Office, London, and the National Archives of Zimbabwe, of collections of private papers, and of contemporary published works.
Download or read book The Wesleyan Methodist Missions in Zimbabwe written by C. J. M. Zvobgo and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Church in Southern Africa written by University of South Africa. Institute for Theological Research and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Rhodesia Zimbabwe written by R. Kent Rasmussen and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions written by A. Scott Moreau and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive, one-volume reference work to consider the history of world missions and contemporary study of the subject from an evangelical perspective.
Download or read book Journal of African Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Religion and Social Change in Southern Africa written by Michael G. Whisson and published by Lawrence Verry Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Southern African Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rhodesia Zimbavwe written by Oliver B. Pollak and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Papers of John Mackenzie written by John Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gender of Piety written by Wendy Urban-Mead and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gender of Piety is an intimate history of the Brethren in Christ Church in Zimbabwe, or BICC, as related through six individual life histories that extend from the early colonial years through the first decade after independence. Taken together, these six lives show how men and women of the BICC experienced and sequenced their piety in different ways. Women usually remained tied to the church throughout their lives, while men often had a more strained relationship with it. Church doctrine was not always flexible enough to accommodate expected masculine gender roles, particularly male membership in political and economic institutions or participation in important male communal practices. The study is based on more than fifteen years of extensive oral history research supported by archival work in Zimbabwe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The oral accounts make it clear, official versions to the contrary, that the church was led by spiritually powerful women and that maleness and mission-church notions of piety were often incompatible. The life-history approach illustrates how the tension of gender roles both within and without the church manifested itself in sometimes unexpected ways: for example, how a single family could produce both a legendary woman pastor credited with mediating multiple miracles and a man—her son—who joined the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union nationalist political party and fought in Zimbabwe’s liberation war in the 1970s. Investigating the lives of men and women in equal measure, The Gender of Piety uses a gendered interpretive lens to analyze the complex relationship between the church and broader social change in this region of southern Africa.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Institute for Historical Research Theses Supplement written by University of London. Institute of Historical Research and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
