Anon. – Western Missionaries in Africa

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Zapadnye missionery vnutri Afriki, Kazan’ 1896 [Otdel’nyi ottisk iz zhurnala “Pravoslavnyi sobesednik”]

Western Missionaries in Africa

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Table of contents: 1. In place of a first chapter (p. 6) – 2. The country and its inhabitants (p. 17) – 3. The first moves of the mission (p. 37) – 4. The first Christians (p. 58) – 5. The first martyrs (p. 66) – 6. The bishop Hannington (p. 73) – The persecution (p. 81) – Mass uprising and the war (p. 90) – 9. Ending (p. 100). The brochure, partly based on The Story of Uganda by S. Stock (1893), is an account of the christianization of Uganda, between accomplishments and struggles. Western missionaries are presented in a favourable light, since it is thanks to them that “Uganda has entered the free and vast path of Christianity and civilization”.

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