The missionary outreach of the West Indian church: Jamaican baptist missions to West Africa in the nineteenth century

"The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists, ex-slaves who, four years after Emancipation (1838), established a witness in the Cameroons (West Africa) in cooperation with their British pastors and with the reluctant aid of the Baptist Missionary Society...

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Main Author: Russell, Horace O. 1929- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:German
Published: New York ; Washington, DC/Baltimore ; Bern ; Frankfurt am Main ; Lang 2000
Series:[Research in religion and family / Black perspectives] 3
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists, ex-slaves who, four years after Emancipation (1838), established a witness in the Cameroons (West Africa) in cooperation with their British pastors and with the reluctant aid of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. Professor Russell analyzes the relationship between the undertaking of the mission and the new self-awareness of a freed people
The institutions created to achieve their aims are discussed and their fortunes are followed amid the chaotic ecclesiastical, economic, and political happenings consequent upon the Anglo/Hispanic rivalry at the time. The book is also a study of what happens when a mission-field becomes a mission agency with missionaries of its own."--BOOK JACKET
Physical Description:XX, 323 S. Ill.
ISBN:0820430633

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