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Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890

by Ingie Hovland

  • Hardback
  • 276 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 15.8 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

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For historians and scholars of global missions.

Unpacks how mission spaces shaped colonial faith.

Understand the lasting impact of missionary work.

A deep anthropological study of Norwegian mission stations in 19th-century South Africa.

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In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880s, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850s.

  • Title

    Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890

  • Author

    Ingie Hovland

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    August 2013

  • Weight

    613g

  • Page Count

    276

  • Dimensions

    15.8 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004254886

  • ISBN-10

    9004254889

  • Eden Code

    4725200