Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Gruchy, John Wen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorNjeza, Malinge McLarenen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-01T08:08:06Z
dc.date.available2014-10-01T08:08:06Z
dc.date.issued2000en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 240-253.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractMy thesis is that early African Christians engaged in critical dialogue with their missionary counterparts in a variety of ways and forms which served to challenge and enrich the Christianization process in South Africa, eventually giving rise to the emergence of African Christianity and theologies. My aim is to show that African Christians talked back in the long conversation with the European missionaries, ""a conversation full of arguments of words and images."" ¹ Early African Christians used various strategies and ways of responding to the missionary encounter ranging from overt to covert forms of resistance and negotiation. These were related to conditions on the ground. African Christian responses thus contradict any assertion of total conformity to the colonial missionary praxis. The classics debate at Lovedale, for instance, reveals that despite the apparent conformity and obedience to orthodoxy at the official level there was an awareness of ambivalence at a secondary (hidden) level. It is this awareness rather than the obvious ambivalence that is crucial to us.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNjeza, M. M. (2000). <i>Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7868en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNjeza, Malinge McLaren. <i>"Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7868en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNjeza, M. 2000. Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Njeza, Malinge McLaren AB - My thesis is that early African Christians engaged in critical dialogue with their missionary counterparts in a variety of ways and forms which served to challenge and enrich the Christianization process in South Africa, eventually giving rise to the emergence of African Christianity and theologies. My aim is to show that African Christians talked back in the long conversation with the European missionaries, ""a conversation full of arguments of words and images."" ¹ Early African Christians used various strategies and ways of responding to the missionary encounter ranging from overt to covert forms of resistance and negotiation. These were related to conditions on the ground. African Christian responses thus contradict any assertion of total conformity to the colonial missionary praxis. The classics debate at Lovedale, for instance, reveals that despite the apparent conformity and obedience to orthodoxy at the official level there was an awareness of ambivalence at a secondary (hidden) level. It is this awareness rather than the obvious ambivalence that is crucial to us. DA - 2000 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2000 T1 - Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise TI - Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7868 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNjeza MM. Subversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterprise. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 2000 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7868en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherReligious Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleSubversive subservience' : a comparative study of the responses of Tiyo Soga and Mpambani Mzimba to the Scottish missionary enterpriseen_ZA
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