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Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood: The Basel Mission in Pre- And Early Colonial Ghana

by Ulrike Sill
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004188884
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 422
  • Original Price: GBP 194.4
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 831 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christian Ministry / Missions

Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, 1843-1885. Popular interpretations have tended to describe Christianity as either 'empowering' or 'domesticating' African women. Looking at variegated push-and-pull factors and in its focus on the agency of Ghanaian women this detailed analysis moves beyond. It situates the quest for Christian womanhood as part of trans-national discourses and exchanges, as well as local interactions, and writes a social history that is at once transnational and transcultural.

Ulrike Sill, Dr.phil.des. (2007) in History, University of Basel, is research assistant for African History at the University of Basel. She has published on women and the history of the Basel Mission and Ghana.

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