Bishop Alfred Tucker and the Establishment of a British Protectorate in Uganda 1890-94
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3932428 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tudor Griffiths (1Monmouth Diocese, formerly of Bishop Tucker Theological College, Uganda, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 92 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/1581815 |
| OpenAlex | W4250203330, W2060964494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The article considers the involvement of Bishop Alfred Tucker and other missionaries of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in the establishment of a British Protectorate in Buganda between 1890 and 1894. These missionaries were drawn, often not unwillingly, into political affairs, both within Uganda and internationally. The contribution made by Tucker was frequently ill-informed and sometimes tendentious. Nevertheless, he sought to uphold the long-standing CMS regulation that missionaries should abstain from any political involvement. The theoretical distinction between the sacred and secular was alien to the intellectual heritage of Uganda, and in practice it was contradicted by the activities of CMS missionaries, who justified their involvement in terms of considering Uganda to be a 'special case
Alien · Ancient history · Colonial rule · Ethnology · History of religions · Indirect rule · Political science · Politics · Protectorate · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Anthropology · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 1.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |