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Author Prichard, Andreana C., author.

Title Sisters in spirit : Christianity, affect, and community building in East Africa, 1860-1970 / Andreana C. Prichard
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series African history and culture
African history and culture.
Contents Introduction. Affecting missions -- Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in Britain and East Africa, 1830-1865 -- From slaves to Christian mothers : developing a doctrine of female evangelism, 1863-1877 -- Industrials and schoolgirls : bonds of personal dependency and the Mbweni Girls' School, 1877-1890 -- Networks of affective spirituality : evangelism and expansion, 1890-1930 -- Of marriages and mimbas : minding the borders of the Christian community, 1910-1930 -- "I am a spiritual mother" : affect, celibacy, and social reproduction, 1920-1970 -- The intimacies of national belonging : community building in post-independence Tanzania, 1960-1970
Summary "In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single mission organization, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the rich personal stories of a group of female African lay evangelists. Founded by British Anglican missionaries in the 1860s, the UMCA worked among refugees from the Indian Ocean slave trade on Zanzibar and among disparate communities on the adjacent Tanzanian mainland. Prichard illustrates how the mission's unique theology and the demographics of its adherents produced cohorts of African Christian women who, in the face of linguistic and cultural dissimilarity, used the daily performance of a certain set of "civilized" Christian values and affective relationships to evangelize to new inquirers. The UMCA's "sisters in spirit" ultimately forged a united spiritual community that spanned discontiguous mission stations across Tanzania and Zanzibar, incorporated diverse ethnolinguistic communities, and transcended generations. Focusing on the emotional and personal dimensions of their lives and on the relationships of affective spirituality that grew up among them, Prichard tells stories that are vital to our understanding of Tanzanian history, the history of religion and Christian missions in Africa, the development of cultural nationalisms, and the intellectual histories of African women"--Publisher's description
Analysis Affective community Affective spirituality Gendered intellectual histories Black Christian women Tanzania Zanzibar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Universities' Mission to Central Africa -- History
SUBJECT Universities' Mission to Central Africa fast
Subject Christian women -- Religious life -- Africa, East
Christian women -- Africa, East -- Social conditions
Women, Black -- Religious life -- Africa, East
Anglican Communion -- Missions -- Africa, East -- History
Christian communities -- Tanzania -- History
Christian communities -- Tanzania -- Zanzibar -- History
HISTORY -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Anglican Communion -- Missions
Christian women -- Religious life
Christian women -- Social conditions
Evangelikale Bewegung
Frau
Mission
Women.
Africa, East
Ostafrika
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016027499
ISBN 9781609175221
1609175220
9781628952926
162895292X