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The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom

AUTHOR: Paul Stuart Landau
ISBN: 0435089633
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The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom
- Book Review, by Paul Stuart Landau

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The Realm of the Word is the first study of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa to treat religion and society as a coherent whole.

About the Author
PAUL LANDAU studied African history and southern African languages at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his doctorate in 1992. He engaged in field and archival research in several towns and villages in Botswana. His articles on culture, Christianity, and ecological practice have appeared in various scholarly journals and the Southern African Review of Books. His newest research focuses on representation in the milieu of colonial contact. He is currently teaching at the University of New Hampshire and will be teaching at Yale starting in fall 1995.

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Book Review

The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom
- Book Reviews, by Paul Stuart Landau

The Realm of the Word: Language, Gender, and Christianity in a Southern African Kingdom

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The Realm of the Word is the first study of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa to treat religion and society as a coherent whole. While previous works have concentrated on the interaction between European missionaries and African Christians, Landau shifts the focus to African evangelists, schoolchildren, cattle barons, healers, miscreants, political rebels, and - most of all - Christian women. His text draws heavily on the words of Tswana contemporaries, and so his sources include oral traditions and reminiscences, court reports, and royal and ecclesiastic correspondence in SeTswana, as well as government and missionary archives. The ideologies and practices of Christianity emerge as inseparable features of the sociopolitical construction of power in central Botswana, premised not on Western hegemony, but instead on Tswana self-rule.

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The Realm of the Word is the first study of mission Christianity in colonial southern Africa to treat religion and society as a coherent whole.

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