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Mission boys, civilized men, and marriage: educated African men in the Missions of Southern Rhodesia, 1920-1945.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Summers, Courtney |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | This paper examines what marriage may have meant to African men within the Christian elite of Southern Rhodesia. Using mission and government sources, it argues that domestic, Christian marriage was important to elite African men as a way of allowing them to achieve adulthood while remaining in good standing with mission sponsors who generally objected to or feared indigenous ideas of patriarchal male adulthood. Tracing life histories of two American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions ministers, one who s쳮ded in remaining within the mission system and one who left, blacklisted, it explores how domestic, Christian marriage defused many of the missions' suspicions of elite African men, while providing a way to acquire the economic, social and political power associated with full adulthood within the local context. |
| Starting Page | 75 |
| Ending Page | 92 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9809.00074 |
| PubMed reference number | 21991644 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://scholarship.richmond.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=history-faculty-publications |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.00074 |
| Journal | The Journal of religious history |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
