An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century

Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions...
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Author: Caroline Jeannerat
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An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century by Jeannerat, Caroline

An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century

Dhs. 300.35

An Ethnography of Faith. Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg, South Africa, in the Early 20th Century

Dhs. 300.35
Author: Caroline Jeannerat
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, constituted a silence regarding the everyday experience of religiosity amongst those drawn to Christianity.

Ethnography of Faith is a detailed study of the ways in which people engage with and experience the religious in order to recognise and understand this suppressed voice of religiosity. In her analysis of the Lutheran church in the Soutpansberg of early twentieth century South Africa, Caroline Jeannerat listens closely to how people describe their own faith and that of others in the archive: in accounts of work done, in texts written for mission publications, in songs composed for church services, in letters and newspaper articles and in oral memories. A careful reading of this archive - for breaks, for misunderstandings and oppositions, for sentiments of agreement, praise, compatibility and claims of shared experiences - identifies negotiations of meaning which give indications of conceptualisations of faith that stand in distinction to those of the missionaries and their expectations.

Caroline Jeannerat holds a PhD in history and anthropology from the University of Michigan (2007).



Author: Caroline Jeannerat
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Published: 01/05/2023
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9783906927374

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