"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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主要作者: Nyanto, Salvatory S. 19XX- (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: 2019
In: The catholic historical review
Year: 2019, 卷: 105, 发布: 1, Pages: 139-156
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tansania / 天主教会 / 宣教 / 房地产 / 文化 / 冲突 / 历史 1934-1960
IxTheo Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RJ Mission; missiology
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects: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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总结: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
Contains:Enthalten in: The catholic historical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cat.2019.0048