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Title: | Transformations of missionary Christianity in rural Sierra Leone |
Author: | Reeck, Darrel L. |
Year: | 1972 |
Periodical: | Genève-Afrique: acta africana |
Volume: | 11 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 45-61 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | missions traditions |
Abstract: | This paper describes some African responses to missionary activity in the context of the modernization process of the 20th century and makes some reflections suggested by the study on aspects of modernization theory. The general thesis is that the strength and adaptive capacity of major strata in the receiving African society enabled that society to 'traditionalize' religious institutions introduced by Western missionaries. The author is concerned with African societies in the Sherbro and Kpaa Mende areas of Sierra Leone, and more particularly with those of the Bumpe (predominantly Sherbro) and Kori (Mende) chiefdoms of the Moyamba District. Both chiefdoms hosted intensive missionary activity and other modernizing endeavors beginning in the late 1890s and earlier in the case of Bumpe Chiefdom. The missionary agency of interest is the Sierra Leone Mission of the United Methodist Church, Notes, list of nonarchival sources. |