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27 Conversion and the Missionary Vocation: American Board Missionaries in South Africa C. TINEKE CARMAN The Missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions . (A.B.C.F.M.) came to Natal with expectations and a world view shaped by New England's Second Great Awakening. Their experiences and beliefs are important to the study of conversion in Natal, first of all because they so heavily affected the missionaries' motivation for leaving their homes in the United States and coming to South Africa. In addition, the missionaries world view affected the style of their work among the Nguni people and colored their reporting of their achievements. ' Missionaries were at the same time the implementers and the chroniclers of conversion. Thus, we see their beliefs echoed both in their testimonials of their own faith and in their reports of on the faith of Nguni converts. Only when we know what the missionaries experienced and expected of , themselves can we understand what they expected of their Nguni converts. Accounts of missionary conversions, moreover, give us concrete examples of the kind of conversion experienced within American Protestant culture and thus provide a basis for contrast when studying cross-cultural conversion. The Second Great
Mission Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1987
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