Encounters in quest of Christian womanhood : the Basel Mission in pre- and early colonial Ghana / by Ulrike Sill
- Author
- Sill, Ulrike
- Published
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvi, 420 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Contents
- The Basel Women's Mission in the European and the Basel context -- The women involved in Basel Mission encounters on the Gold Coast -- Embodying Christian womanhood : 'African' actors in the Basel Mission -- Christiansborg : acquiring space to propagate Basel femininity -- Akuapem and Akuropon (1) : establishing new spaces -- Akuapem (2) : existing loyalties and new options -- Innovation by women : the case of "six-fingered children" -- Creating a new female space : the Basel Mission girls' boarding schools -- Women's speech in the Basel Mission community and beyond.
- Summary
- Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either 'empowering' or 'domesticating' African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanho.
- Subject(s)
- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel—History—19th century
- Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
- 1800-1899
- Missions—Ghana—History—19th century
- Christian women—Ghana—History—19th century
- Missions—Ghāna—Histoire—19e siècle
- Chrétiennes—Ghāna—Histoire—19e siècle
- RELIGION—Christian Ministry—Missions
- Christian women
- Missions
- Ghana—Church history—19th century
- Ghana
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9789004193734 (electronic bk.)
9004193731 (electronic bk.)
1282952927
9781282952928
9789004188884
9004188886
9789004184503
9004184503 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-408) and index.
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