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EDITORIAL Volume XVI of the JOURNAL will be largely directed towards a revised assessment of the Christian missionary impact upon Africa. As we draw away from the missionary era it becomes possi- ble and appropriate to reconsider the often rather simplistic views, both pro and contra, of the missionary as evangeliser, agent for change, imperialist cooperator, destroyer of the African past or defender of African rights. He or she was all of these things and others too. What the mis- sionary historian needs above all is a respectful sense of the diver- sities and ambiguities within the vast range of this phenomenon to replace a too stylised model of 'The Missionary'. The main studies in this issue focus upon British figures at the extreme Protestant end of the spectrum: Hughes, Booth, Christie and Dodds belong very much to one world - a world of British religious independency and very small-scale resources. The financial resources and political clout behind such people were limited indeed. Dr Kalu's Primitive Methodists appear here in a more conventional light, Hughes and of course Booth in a more radical one. 'Africa for the African' was Booth's great message - at once sublime and, seemingly, unrealistic. These studies, particularly that of King on the Institute at Colwyn Bay, will help to place him in a wider context of con- temporary concern: the helping hand of the British Independent for African Independency, both ecclesiastical and political. All concern that crucial, most formative, missionary era, 1890-1930; all stress the limiting factors of money and personnel, yet all show too a perhaps unexpected degree of achievement in African cooperation - in an Agbebi, a Chilembwe, an Emmanuel Hart. Together they help illuminate just one of many strands within the world of the missionary. Subsequent issues will enlarge the picture. '
Journal of Religion in Africa – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1986
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