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Evangelism: Colonial Africa Missionaries
(+) The missionaries... Stimulated culture, politics, and religious change.  Provided education, new print language, and health care.  Allowed all types of people to come to their churches.  Helped maintain the control of the colonial powers by pacifying the local populations.  Converted millions of native Africans to Christianity.  Were willing to meet and learn about many people (believed that they deserved respect)  Female missionaries provided women in Africa with health care and basic education.

(-) Missionaries ... Were accused of teaching women more chores than education. Were accused by some historians of making Africans feel inferior about their own culture. Associated Africa with evil pure and simple.  Refused to acknowledge Africans having their own religious views.  Concluded that worship in Africa was of the devil.  Assumed that the black man was going to hell and needed white man's salvation.





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Works Cited:

Beidelman, T.O. Colonial Evangelism: A Socio-cultural Study of an East African Mission at the Grassroots, 1982 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mbitti, Joseph. African Religions and Philosophy, 1990

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fowale, Joseph. "Christianity and Traditional Religions in Colonial Africa." suite101. suite101, 27 Oct 2010. Web. 8 Nov 2010. <http://www.suite101.com/content/christianity-and-traditional-religion-in-colonial-africa-a301604>.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Khan, Taimur. "Religion in colonial Africa." dailypennsylvanian. The Daily Pennsylvanian, 09 Oct 2002. Web. 4 Nov 2010. <http://dailypennsylvanian.com/node/27491>.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Peril, Marvin et al. Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society. Dallas, 1989.

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