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Title Dispersion, procreation and mission: The emergence of Protestantism in early modern West Africa
Full text https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/425080
Date 2022
Author(s) Frederiks, Martha
Contributor(s) Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen; LS Studie van het Wereldchristendom; OFR - Religious Studies
Abstract This article explores the emergence of Protestantism in West Africa in the 17th century, using both primary and secondary sources. Its central argument is that the history of Protestantism in early modern Africa has mainly been examined within the paradigm of mission history, thus reducing the history of Protestantism to a history of Protestant missionary endeavors. By intersecting three complementary windows, ' a Roman Catholic window, a chartered company window and a Euro-African window ', the article traces the wider history of Protestantism in early modern West Africa. It maps the impact of Protestantism on Roman Catholics in West Africa, sketches the significance of Protestantism for certain Euro-Africans, and shows that through a combination of dispersion, procreation and mission Protestantism became a reality in West Africa as early as the 17th century.
Subject(s) mission; Protestantism; West Africa; chartered companies; Euro-Africans; Roman Catholics; Protestant-Catholic rivalry
Language en
Relation 0166-2740
Type of publication Article
Format application/pdf
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess
Identifier Exchange 51(3), 245-265 (2022)
Repository Utrecht - University of Utrecht
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