Mark Christian Hayford
A Non-Success Story
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3932136 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gordon M Haliburton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religion in Africa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4200 • E-ISSN: 1570-0666 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1581012 |
| OpenAlex | W4254469675 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
MARK CHRISTIAN HAYFORD: A NON-SUCCESS STORY BY G. M. HALIBURTON (Rivers Steve College of Education, Port Harcourt, Nigeria) Missionary societies in the late Victorian period were embar- . rassed by and resentful of Richard Burton's descriptions of the Christian community of Freetown as idle, demoralized and ineffec- tive, but these views and those of his imitators helped to popularize the view of African Christians and their leaders as being hypocritical and hopelessly pretentious in their ideas of their own importance. We find Edgar Wallace giving vent to a description of an African clergyman along the same lines in his Sanders
Aesthetics · African studies · Anthropology of religion · History of religions · Period (music) · Political science · Resentment · Sociology · Theology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropology · History · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2003 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |