The realm of the Word : language, gender, and Christianity in a Southern African kingdom

Author(s)

• Landau, Paul Stuart

Bibliographic Information

The realm of the Word : language, gender, and Christianity in a Southern African kingdom

Paul Stuart Landau

（Social history of Africa）

Heinemann , D. Philip , J. Currey, c1995

• : Heinemann : pbk
• : Heinemann : cloth
• : James Currey : cloth
• : James Currey : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-240) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: Heinemann : cloth ISBN 9780435089634

Description

The Realm of the Word is the first study of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa to treat religion and society as a coherent whole. While previous works have concentrated on the interactions of European missionaries and Africans, Landau shifts the focus to African evangelists, schoolchildren, cattle barons, healers, miscreants, political rebels, and, most of all, Christian women. Drawing as much as possible on the words of Tswana contemporaries, his sources include oral traditions and reminiscences, court reports, and royal and ecclesiastic correspondence in SeTswana, as well as government and missionary archives. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable from a kingdom's construction of power in central Botswana--a realm of the Word, premised not on Western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

Volume

: Heinemann : pbk ISBN 9780435089658

Description

The Realm of the Word is the first study of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa to treat religion and society as a coherent whole.

Volume

: James Currey : pbk ISBN 9780852556207

Description

This grassroots history of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa treats religion and society as a coherent whole. It shifts the focus away from European missionaries and African Christians, and on to African evangelists, schoolchildren, healers and - most of all - Christian women. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable from a kingdom's construction of power in central Botswana - a realm of the word premised, not on western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

Table of Contents

• Part One The centre of the kingdom: Kharma III and the word of God
• missionary labours - the struggle to master the church
• how the meaning of Thuto changed - status, literacy, cattle and nationalism. Part Two The periphery of the realm of the word: the body of Christians
• medicine, extraction and prayer
• the way, the truth and the light - how Christians spread the word
• interference in matters of belief - rape, closed spaces and colonial complicity
• the masters of the cattle are absent
• citizenship, identity and power in the village
• a realm of the word - conclusion and epilogue.

Volume

: James Currey : cloth ISBN 9780852556702

Description

This grassroots history of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa treats religion and society as a coherent whole. It shifts the focus away from European missionaries and African Christians, and on to African evangelists, schoolchildren, healers and - most of all - Christian women. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable from a kingdom's construction of power in central Botswana - a realm of the word premised, not on western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

Table of Contents

• Part One The centre of the kingdom: Kharma III and the word of God
• missionary labours - the struggle to master the church
• how the meaning of Thuto changed - status, literacy, cattle and nationalism. Part Two The periphery of the realm of the word: the body of Christians
• medicine, extraction and prayer
• the way, the truth and the light - how Christians spread the word
• interference in matters of belief - rape, closed spaces and colonial complicity
• the masters of the cattle are absent
• citizenship, identity and power in the village
• a realm of the word - conclusion and epilogue.

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Details

• NCID: BA27138115
• ISBN:
  • 043508965X
  • 0435089633
  • 0852556705
  • 0852556209
• LCCN: 94024942
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Portsmouth, NH,Cape Town,London
• Pages/Volumes: xxix, 249 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BV3630.B25
  • DC20 : 306.6/76883
  • NDC8 : 389.48
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ngwato (African people) -- Missions
  • LCSH : London Missionary Society
  • LCSH : Missions -- Botswana
  • LCSH : Botswana -- Church history
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19151730