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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Material deception in African Christianity: A study of prosperity Gospel among selected churches in Mombasa, Kenya.

open access: yes, 2012
African Christianity has seen many phases of expressing spirituality since the European colonial authorities gave way to African independent states. Many of the African churches that started during and after colonialism were mainly driven by protest ...
Munyao, Martin
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Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org). Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 2, no. 1 (Jan. 2017)

open access: yes, 2017
[The January 2017 issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography introduces Simon Kimbangu, Joseph Malula and Jean Ifoto Bokambanza Bokeleale as three leading figures who have shaped major forms of Christianity in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
Loba-Mkole, Jean-Claude, (OP)
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Five Decades of Innovation—Tailored Breast Cancer Treatment: 1976–2026

open access: yes
World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.
Ipshita Prakash   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

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