Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:31:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2012-03-19Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:01:35Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_jo_dr_mar.pdf: 2640425 bytes, checksum: 5f68b3caa6aa83227510150be25a0770 (MD5) / As narrativas missionárias católicas na África apresentam a ações religiosas correspondendo a um heroísmo realizado na alteridade da África Central. Nosso objetivo foi investigar o expansionismo católico realizado pelos Missionários da África, no Vicariato do Niassa, na vasta região dominada pelos Babemba, no norte da Rhodésia, atual Zâmbia. O conjunto de postos missionários espalhados pelo norte da Rhodésia até toda a extensão do Niassalândia compunha esse território eclesiástico. Metodologicamente, utilizamos a interface entre a Antropologia e a História para conduzir nossa análise interpretativa das narrativas desse grupo: diários, documentos oficiais e atlas. Para tanto, escolhemos como nossos nativos os membros desse instituto católico, fundado em 1868, na Argélia, pelo Cardeal francês Charles Lavigerie, e sendo estipulado como recorte histórico o período de 1891, que marca a chegada deles em Mambwe, até 1937, pela instalação do território eclesiástico do Vicariato Apostólico de Luangwa pela Propaganda Fide. Para compreender as ações missionárias, investigamos de que forma o habitus católico se estruturou para definir fronteiras eclesiásticas na forma de etnicidade entre outros grupos católicos e, também, com o mundo laico. Os Missionários da África se diferenciaram dos outros institutos pela produção de sinais diacríticos para manter sua identidade coletiva, operando em conformidade com o funcionamento de circunscrições, abaixo e em torno do papado. Concluímos que o expansionismo católico levou para a Rhodésia atores missionários, padres e irmãos, dispostos a se sacrificar e a se adaptar diante das ações refratárias do interesse colonial, das resistências dos chefes nativos contra o domínio... / Catholic missionary narratives introduce religious actions as a heroism accomplished in the alterity of Central Africa. Our aim was to investigate the Catholic expansion, realized by the Missionaries of Africa, in Nyassa Vicariate, in the extensive territory dominated by Babemba, in Northern Rhodesia, nowadays Zambia. The aggregation of mission stations sprinkled over Northern Rhodesia, as far as to the whole extension of Nyassaland, composed such ecclesiastical territory. Methodologically, we have make used of Anthropology and History interface to conduct our analytical interpretation of missionary narratives: diaries, official documents and atlas. For that reason, we have chosen as our natives the members of that Catholic institute, founded in 1868, by the French Cardinal Charles Lavigerie, in Algeria. We set up the period of investigation the moment they left the Shiré site and reached Mambwe, in 1891, until 1937, when the erection Apostolic Vicariate of Luangwa granted by Propaganda Fide. To understand such bureaucratically products, we investigate how Catholic habitus has structured itself to define its ecclesiastical borders in terms of ethnicity, competing prestige amongst other Catholic groups and, also, with laity domination. Missionaries of Africa differed from other institutes by producing diacritical signs to sustain its collective identity, operating due to prescriptive circumscriptions, bellow and around the papacy. We concluded that Catholic expansion brought to Rhodesia missionary actors, priests and brother, willing to sacrifice their lives and be adapted to refractory actions of colonial plans, chiefdoms’ resistances against foreigner domain and tensions inner the ecclesiastical borders. Therefore... (Complete abstract click electronic access below)

The purpose of the study is to compare the attitudes to Islam of Samuel Crowther, Edward Blyden, and Walter Miller in the light of their work in West Africa. Their careers overlapped to some extent. Crowther was active from 1841-1891, Blyden from 1851-1912, Miller from 1897-1952. Each man was involved in missionary activity. For Crowther and Miller this was life-long. In Blyden's case, the break came in 1886, when he resigned as a Presbyterian minister, to become what he called 'a minister of Truth 1 . After this date his career became more controversial. Like the other two, he continued to be interested in the theory and practice of mission among Muslims and in a critical comparison of Christianity and Islam, as religious systems which could secure liberation for Africans from all forms of slavery, whether physical, cultural or spiritual. The study consists of nine chapters which provide a systematic analysis of the central theme. The introductory section discusses purpose, method and scope. Chapter one consists of an analysis of Christian attitudes to Islam, which serves as the basis for a comparison of the attitudes of Crowther, Blyden arid Miller in the final chapter. The second chapter deals with the nineteenth century background to the work of the three men. The following chapters deal, successively, with the life and attitude to Islam of each man. The chapters on attitudes are divided, thematically, in order to discuss the various aspects more systematically. The concluding chapter contains a comparative assessment. Two appendices (concerned vrith Blyden and Miller, respectively), a full list of sources, and a bibliography, complete the study.

Orientador: Claude Lépine / Banca: Silvio Marcus de Souza Correa / Banca: Walter Lúcio de Alencar Praxedes / Banca: Barbara Fadel / Banca: Antonio Mendes da Costa Braga / Resumo: As narrativas missionárias católicas na África apresentam a ações religiosas correspondendo a um heroísmo realizado na alteridade da África Central. Nosso objetivo foi investigar o expansionismo católico realizado pelos Missionários da África, no Vicariato do Niassa, na vasta região dominada pelos Babemba, no norte da Rhodésia, atual Zâmbia. O conjunto de postos missionários espalhados pelo norte da Rhodésia até toda a extensão do Niassalândia compunha esse território eclesiástico. Metodologicamente, utilizamos a interface entre a Antropologia e a História para conduzir nossa análise interpretativa das narrativas desse grupo: diários, documentos oficiais e atlas. Para tanto, escolhemos como nossos nativos os membros desse instituto católico, fundado em 1868, na Argélia, pelo Cardeal francês Charles Lavigerie, e sendo estipulado como recorte histórico o período de 1891, que marca a chegada deles em Mambwe, até 1937, pela instalação do território eclesiástico do Vicariato Apostólico de Luangwa pela Propaganda Fide. Para compreender as ações missionárias, investigamos de que forma o habitus católico se estruturou para definir fronteiras eclesiásticas na forma de etnicidade entre outros grupos católicos e, também, com o mundo laico. Os Missionários da África se diferenciaram dos outros institutos pela produção de sinais diacríticos para manter sua identidade coletiva, operando em conformidade com o funcionamento de circunscrições, abaixo e em torno do papado. Concluímos que o expansionismo católico levou para a Rhodésia atores missionários, padres e irmãos, dispostos a se sacrificar e a se adaptar diante das ações refratárias do interesse colonial, das resistências dos chefes nativos contra o domínio... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Catholic missionary narratives introduce religious actions as a heroism accomplished in the alterity of Central Africa. Our aim was to investigate the Catholic expansion, realized by the Missionaries of Africa, in Nyassa Vicariate, in the extensive territory dominated by Babemba, in Northern Rhodesia, nowadays Zambia. The aggregation of mission stations sprinkled over Northern Rhodesia, as far as to the whole extension of Nyassaland, composed such ecclesiastical territory. Methodologically, we have make used of Anthropology and History interface to conduct our analytical interpretation of missionary narratives: diaries, official documents and atlas. For that reason, we have chosen as our natives the members of that Catholic institute, founded in 1868, by the French Cardinal Charles Lavigerie, in Algeria. We set up the period of investigation the moment they left the Shiré site and reached Mambwe, in 1891, until 1937, when the erection Apostolic Vicariate of Luangwa granted by Propaganda Fide. To understand such bureaucratically products, we investigate how Catholic habitus has structured itself to define its ecclesiastical borders in terms of ethnicity, competing prestige amongst other Catholic groups and, also, with laity domination. Missionaries of Africa differed from other institutes by producing diacritical signs to sustain its collective identity, operating due to prescriptive circumscriptions, bellow and around the papacy. We concluded that Catholic expansion brought to Rhodesia missionary actors, priests and brother, willing to sacrifice their lives and be adapted to refractory actions of colonial plans, chiefdoms' resistances against foreigner domain and tensions inner the ecclesiastical borders. Therefore... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

During the 1890s in the United States, Midwestern YMCA missionaries challenged the nexus of power between Northeastern Protestant denominations, industrialists, politicians, and the Association's International Committee. Under Kansas YMCA secretary George Fisher, this movement shook the Northeastern alliance's underpinnings, eventually establishing the Gospel Missionary Union. The YMCA and the GMU mutually defined foreign and domestic missionary work discursively. Whereas Fisher's pre-millennial movement promoted world conversion generally, the YMCA primarily reached out to college students in the United States and abroad. Moreover, the GMU challenged social and gender roles among Moroccan Berbers. Fisher's movements have not been historically analyzed since 1975. Missionary Millennium is a reanalysis and critical reading of religious fictions about GMU missionaries, following the organization to its current incarnation as Avant Ministries.

A list of Moravian missionaries active in Ghana (1737-68), South Africa (1737-44, 1792-c. 1960) and Tanzania (1891-c. 1970), with a bibliography and an index of place-names.

This thesis is about Thomas Jefferson Bowen (1814 - 1875), a Baptist missionary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, United States. Bowen worked in Africa and tried to work with slaves in Brazil. These facts made Bowen a missionary ahead of his time. He had a different perspective and attitude to Africa and Africans. His book Central Africa, his personal letters, his articles, his life, show that he was deeply involved with the idea that Africa could be much more than only a good place to purchase slaves. His whole missionary life was expended in a project to train blacks to work in Africa as missionaries and teachers. What made Bowen a different missionary from his fellows in his time was the fact that he was able to understand and respect the culture of the people with whom he was involved. He could see and appreciate the structures of the African society and he planned a development project from the African perspective. He was a missionary who believed that the Western society was not appropriate for Africa. Africa had to find its own way. He was different because he believed that missionaries have to speak the language of the people and should not force the native people to learn English as a "holy" language. We present this work as a tribute to this missionary whose life and relationship with blacks can be seen as an example of respect and understanding of the culture of a people. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1998.