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Summary:

Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert Alexander Maryks and Festo Mkenda, S.J., presents critical reflections on the nature of those encounters in southern Africa and in Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Fernando Po. Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time. This volume is the result of the second Boston College International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2016. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, it is available in Open Access.

Table of Contents:

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Part 1 Introduction
• Protestantism and Early Jesuits / Robert Aleksander Maryks
• Jesuits, Protestants, and Africa before the Twentieth Century / Festo Mkenda S.J.
• Part 2: Memories of Earlier Missions
• Following in Jesuit Footsteps: British Expeditions to Ethiopia in the Early Victorian Era / Jesse Sargent
• A Protestant Verdict on the Jesuit Missionary Approach in Africa: David Livingstone and Memories of the Early Jesuit Presence in South Central Africa / Festo Mkenda S.J.
• Part 3: Encounters in Southern Africa
• Jesuits and Protestants in South Africa, 1685-2015 / Egan Anthony S.J.
• Encounters between Jesuit and Protestant Missionaries in their Approaches to Evangelization in Zambia / Maambo Choobe S.J.
• Soror nostra es: Jesuits, Protestants, and Political Elites in Southern Africa among the Shona and the Ndebele, 1889-1900 / Aquinata Agonga
• Chapter 6: Jesuit Portraits of Protestant Missionary Activity in Southern Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Sumani Wilfred S.J.
• Part 4: Encounters in Madagascar, Congo, and Fernando Poo
• Jesuits and Protestants in Nineteenth-century Madagascar / Rabeson Jocelyn S.J.
• Chapter 8: Jesuit-Protestant Encounters in Colonial Congo in the Late Nineteenth Century: Perceptions, Prejudices, and the Competition for African Souls / Murhula Toussaint Kafarhire S.J.
• Chapter 9: The Adulteresses Were Reformers: The Perception and Position of Women in the Religious Fight of Fernando Poo, 1843-1900 / Enyegue Jean Luc S.J.

Contributors:

Maryks, Robert A. , editor

Mkenda, Festo, 1968- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] — ISBN 9789004347144; LCCN 2017049981; OCLC Number 1004265758)

Related Series:

Jesuit Studies - Modernity through the prism of Jesuit history; volume 13 (ISSN 2214-3289)

European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2018-II

Subjects:

Jesuits — Africa — History

Catholic Church — Relations — Protestant churches

Africa — Church history

Protestant churches — Africa — History

Protestant churches — Relations — Catholic Church

Jesuits

Catholic Church

Relations

Protestant churches

Church history

Africa

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Electronic resource.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 252 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BR1360 .E536 2018eb

ISBNs:

9789004347151 (E-book)
9004347151 (E-book)
9789004347144 (hardback, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9004347143
9789004347144

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017051131

OCLC Numbers:

1008765534