Pastors, Partners, and Paternalists: African Church Leaders and Western Missionaries in the Anglican Church in Kenya, 1850-1900BRILL, 1997 - 202 pages A study tracing the relationships between missionaries and African Church workers in Kenya in the years 1850-1900, as missionaries increasingly adopted imperial assumptions of Western superiority. It tells the story of the first Anglican clergy in Kenya, their wives and colleagues; their rescue from slavery, their education in India and their subsequent work in East Africa. It demonstrates their contribution to the rapid growth of the Church and of indigenous Christian communities. Yet later missionaries were not willing to accord to the Africans the position they had a right to expect. The book recounts their protest and the development of a Church order. Similar events in West Africa have been documented, but this is the first time such a pattern in East Africa has been outlined. |
Contents
The First Kenyan Anglican Clergy | 1 |
Bombay Nasik | 15 |
Rabai and Zanzibar | 31 |
Fugitive Slaves | 41 |
New Beginnings 18751885 | 53 |
The Church among Fugitive Slave Communities | 75 |
Conflict and Cohabitation | 83 |
The Ordination of the First Clergy | 95 |
Fifteen Years of Deteriorating Relationships | 125 |
Subsidiary Causes of Conflict Language and Dress | 143 |
The Giriama Church Successors to | 153 |
Summary and Conclusions Looking Back and Forward | 161 |
Postscript | 177 |
Biographical Notes | 185 |
Primary sources | 195 |
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