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- Title
Umpumulo, Place of Rest: A Nineteenth-Century Christian Mission Station among the Zulus.
- Authors
Hovland, Ingie
- Abstract
The article relates how 19th century Norwegian missionaries who, in an effort to convert Zulus in South Africa, converted the territory of their missionary station into something more familiar to their own religious and cultural expectations. It discusses the conflict between African and European understandings of space. In the 1850s, the first Norwegian missionaries knew they were initiating a conversion process with extensive implications, but they failed to tell the story of the new space they were creating. There was a world of difference between the Umpumulo mission station and its Zulu surroundings.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; MISSIONARIES; ZULU (African people); ETHNOLOGY; CULTURE; CONVERSION (Religion)
- Publication
Radical History Review, 2007, Issue 99, p140
- ISSN
0163-6545
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/01636545-2007-007