An African Christian Morality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2507332 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monica Hunter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1937 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-292 |
| Publication date | 1937-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9720 • E-ISSN: 1750-0184 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1155295 |
| OpenAlex | W2040250230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 1 |
Opening ParagraphStatements are frequently made by residents and travellers in Africa about the effects of missions on Native communities, but they are seldom backed by an analysis of concrete facts. The African is subject to the influences of Western European culture in many different ways, and it is extremely difficult to isolate the influence of missions from other contact influences, particularly since African Christians tend, for a variety of reasons, to be more affected by these other influences than their pagan neighbour. By comparing, in one area, the life of pagan and Christian families which are subject to similar non-Christian contact influences it is, however, possible to study specific differences in belief and behaviour. One such observable difference is found in the believed working of religious sanctions. Among the Nyakyusa of South Tanganyika behaviour in the pagan community is directly affected by the belief that certain actions are punished by the ancestors, by witchcraft, or by magic. Christian teachers attack these beliefs. The problem then arises as to how far belief in traditional religious sanctions remains in the Christian community, how far it is replaced or modified, and how far changes in belief affect behaviour
Affect (linguistics · Archaeology · Belief in God · Christianity · Epistemology · MAGIC (telescope · Morality · Paragraph · Political science · Religious belief · Sanctions · Sociology · Subject (documents · Variety (cybernetics · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology
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Things fall apart? Missions, institutions, and interpersonal trust
Letters to Africa
Social and Cultural Conditions of Religious Conversion in Colonial Southwest Tanzania, 1891-1939
Monica Wilson (1908-1982) and social change
Monica Wilson 1908-82
| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2023 (49) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |