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This scholarly examination explores the complex interactions between Christian missionaries and the Walugru people in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania during the late colonial period. Rather than presenting missions as purely exploitative, the book reveals how Africans and missionaries together shaped a Catholic Church through mutual adaptation and co-production across initiation practices, education, magical beliefs, and religious expression. By studying day-to-day encounters often overlooked in missionary historiography, the author challenges the stereotype of ethnocentrism and demonstrates how this contact created significant cultural shifts, including a division between spiritual and worldly magic. Part of the Studies in Anthropology and History series, this Routledge publication offers anthropologists, historians, and scholars of colonial Africa a nuanced account of religious syncretism and cultural negotiation in early twentieth-century Tanzania.

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Explores daily interactions between missionaries and Walugru people in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania during the late colonial period.

Analyses how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church through mutual adaptation across initiation, education, magic and religion.

Challenges the stereotype of missionary ethnocentrism by examining actual practices and cultural exchanges rather than assumptions.

Part of the Studies in Anthropology and History series, providing scholarly depth for academic research in colonial African studies.

Examines the separation of spiritual and worldly magic resulting from mission presence and cultural contact in the region.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 9057023040
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 22 February 1999
Listed Since: 25 January 2007

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