Sisters in spirit : Christianity, affect, and community building in East Africa, 1860-1970 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Prichard, Andreana C. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2017.
Series:	African history and culture.
Subjects:	Universities' Mission to Central Africa > History. Christian women > Religious life > Africa, East. Christian women > Africa, East > Social conditions. Anglican Communion > Missions > Africa, East > History. History.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction. Affecting missions
Tractarian beginnings : theology and society in nineteenth-century Britain and East Africa
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.

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