Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857-1891 : The Church Missionary Society's All-African Mission on the Upper Niger / Femi J. Kolapo.
Kolapo, Femi James.
2019
BV3625.N5
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Title Christian Missionary Engagement in Central Nigeria, 1857-1891 : The Church Missionary Society's All-African Mission on the Upper Niger / Femi J. Kolapo.
Author Kolapo, Femi James.
ISBN 9783030314262
303031426X
9783030314255
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 301 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-31
Call Number BV3625.N5
Dewey Decimal Classification 266.009
960
Summary In the decades before colonial partition in Africa, the Church Missionary Society embarked on the first serious effort to evangelize in an independent Muslim state. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther led an all-African field staff to convert the people of the Upper Niger and Confluence area, whose communities were threatened or already conquered by an expanding jihadist Nupe state. In this book, Femi J. Kolapo examines the significance of the mission as an African--rather than European--undertaking, assessing its impact on missionary practice, local engagement, and Christian conversion prospects. By offering a fuller history of this overlooked mission in the history of Christianity in Nigeria, this book reaffirms indigenous agency and rethinks the mission as an experiment ahead of its time.
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Series African histories and modernities.
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1. Introduction
2. The CMS Upper Niger and Confluence Area Environment
3. CMS Niger Mission Agents' Field Practice
4. Management of Conversion on the Upper Niger and at the Confluence
5. Women and the CMS Upper Niger Mission
6. A Stalled Christian Transition
7. Concluding Thoughts.

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