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Author Skeie, Karina Hestad.

Title Building God's kingdom : Norwegian missionaries in highland Madagascar, 1866-1903 / by Karina Hestad Skeie.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in Christian mission, 0924-9389 ; v. 42
Studies in Christian mission ; vol. 42.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Buildings, Bodies and Missionary Work -- History and Theoretical Presuppositions -- Mission and Missionaries -- Previous Research on Christianity and Mission in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar -- Sources -- Sources to the Malagasy side -- Chapter Outline -- A Brief Note on Language -- 2. Nineteenth Century Norway and the Mission -- Introduction -- Transformation and Modernisation -- Haugianism -- Nationalism and Quest for Independence -- The Lutheran State Church of Norway -- The Protestant Mission Movement in Norway and the NMS -- Internal and External Mission Associations -- Why the NMS Chose Madagascar -- Women and Mission -- The Social Background of the Missionary Personnel -- Female Missionaries and their Educational Background -- Male Missionaries and their Educational Background -- NMS-LMS Contact -- Schreuder's Contacts -- 3. Nineteenth-Century Madagascar and the Norwegian Mission -- Introduction -- Language -- The Kingdom of Madagascar -- Social Categories -- Political Structures -- The Custom of the Ancestors -- Hasina -- Macrocosm and Microcosm -- the Universe and the House -- Hierarchy -- Leadership -- Religious Specialists -- Rituals of Blessing -- Christianity and Christian Missions -- European Christian Missions in Madagascar -- NMS's Arrival in Madagascar -- Overview of the Norwegian Mission in Madagascar -- Missionary Personnel -- Stability -- 4. The Mission Station: Building a Home -- Introduction -- `To Bring the Light of Bliss to Those Who Sit in Darkness' -- Building the Mission Station -- The House Interior -- Bodies and Boundaries -- Relationships Between Houses -- Outsiders Inside and Outside -- Inside and Out -- Outside the Mission Station -- 5. The Church Building: Building a Lutheran Church -- Introduction -- The Politics of Place -- Negotiating Place -- Building and Maintaining Relations -- Hasina -- Non-Negotiable Customs -- `The Worship' and Fanompoana Churches -- A Challenging Relationship -- Building Churches -- The Church Building -- The Spatial Logics of Station Districts -- The Church Interior -- Entangled Objects -- Norwegian or Malagasy Church? -- Bodies and Boundaries: Requirements for Baptism -- Baptism and the Christian Life after Baptism -- Negotiating Membership -- Active Reinterpretation -- Teaching and Preaching -- in Theory and in Practice -- Malagasy Pastors -- Churches and Schools -- Conclusions -- 6. Crossroads and a Malagasy Challenge -- Introduction -- Organisational Development -- Women's Associations -- Workers' Meetings -- Annual Meetings -- Organisations in Other Protestant Churches in the Highlands -- Developing Consciousness of a Malagasy Lutheran Church -- Formal and Informal Power and Influence -- A New Colonial Context -- Anti-Foreign and Anti-Christian Revolt -- Malagasy Lutherans: Under Double Suspicion -- The Norwegian Missionaries and the French Colonial Government -- Christian Revivals: the Fifohazana -- The Malagasy Synod Initiative -- Ambato -- the Quest for Unity and Independence -- What Did the Malagasy Lutherans Want? -- The Synod Constitution, Ambato November 23, 1901 -- `God's own work' -- Conclusion -- 7. From Mission to Church -- Introduction -- A Letter From NMS Norway -- Four Related Topics -- The 1901 Ambato Synod as an Extension of the Norwegian Missionary Work -- `A Longing Among Our Christians' -- Self-Government Requires Self-Sufficiency -- Organisation From the Ground Up -- Other Opinions -- The Open Discussion -- An Old Discussion -- The MC Resolutions -- The Missionary Response to the Malagasy Lutherans -- Fahaleovantena -- The Vig's Organisational Proposal: Influence for Money -- Was There Anything Left? -- The First Ordinary Synod -- Constitution for the Malagasy Lutheran Church -- The Implications of the Main Differences -- Removing the Station District -- Isantaona and Synod Rather Than Provincial Synod and General Synod -- The Synod Committee -- Unity Gives Strength -- Conclusions -- Missionary Approval -- Awaiting the Response from NMS Main Board -- 8. Seized by the Mission -- Introduction -- Malagasy Expectations -- A Foretaste of the Eternal Community of Christians -- The Meeting and Dahle's Address -- From Havana to Tompokolahy -- People's Reactions -- Isantaona Missions -- Negotiate or Impose? -- Money Problems and the Mission's Self-Image -- Dahle's Use of Power -- The Work for Self-Sufficiency Already Taking Place in the Congregations -- Dahle's Representation of the Synod and the Malagasy Lutheran Church in Madagascar -- Conclusions -- 9. Conclusions -- The Synod Case in a Comparative Perspective -- Comparing the Norwegian Missionaries and the British LMS Missionaries in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar -- Patriarchy vs Universalism in the Nineteenth-Century Missionary Enterprise.
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Subject Missions, Norwegian -- Madagascar -- History -- 19th century.
Missions, Norwegian.
Madagascar.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Madagascar -- Church history -- 19th century.
Church history.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Skeie, Karina Hestad. Building God's kingdom. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004240827 (DLC) 2012041323 (OCoLC)815873371
ISBN 9789004242128 (electronic book)
9004242120 (electronic book)
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