"The Empire Strikes Back": Communities, Catholic Missions, and Imperial Authority in Western Tanzania, 1934-1960

This article addresses dissent at the time of the encounter between communities and missionaries in Western Tanzania. It centers on the land question and culture as sources of contention between the people and missionaries. It shows that the people's opposition to eviction from their land and o...

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1. VerfasserIn: Nyanto, Salvatory S. 19XX- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2019
In: The catholic historical review
Jahr: 2019, Band: 105, Heft: 1, Seiten: 139-156
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Tansania / Katholische Kirche / Mission / Grundeigentum / Kultur / Konflikt / Geschichte 1934-1960
IxTheo Notationen:CD Christentum und Kultur
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KBN Subsahara-Afrika
KDB Katholische Kirche
RJ Mission; Missionswissenschaft
SA Kirchenrecht; Staatskirchenrecht
weitere Schlagwörter:B Land tenure; History
B Resistance
B Catholic Church History
B Imperial Authority
B Catholic Church; Relations; Protestant churches
B Catholic missionaries
B Eviction
B Tanzania; History
B Catholic missions
B Western Tanzania
B Catholic-Protestant Relations
B Struggle for land
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Zusammenfassung:This article addresses dissent at the time of the encounter between communities and missionaries in Western Tanzania. It centers on the land question and culture as sources of contention between the people and missionaries. It shows that the people's opposition to eviction from their land and opposition to missionaries' interference of their culture called for dialogue between the people, missionaries, and imperial authority, and, accordingly, benefitted the parties involved. Using the perspective from below, the article contributes to the scholarship on dissent to show how ordinary peasants responded to the need of missionaries for land and control of the cultural aspects. The article also builds on the idea of 'long conversation' from studies on the encounter between communities and missionaries to show how dissent called for mutual discussion between communities, missionaries, and imperial authority.
ISSN:1534-0708
Enthält:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cat.2019.0048