An 1853 Map of the Yoruba Country: The Idea of West Africa in the American Southern Baptist Mission’s Ideology and Practice
Abstract This paper examines an 1853 map of Yorubaland that reflects the evangelisation discourse of the American Southern Baptist Convention. Starting from 1845, the SBC began an evangelical drive towards the ‘saving’ of Africans in West Africa as a form of self-compensation in their attempt to pro...
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2021
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2021, Volume: 34, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 391-423 |
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Yoruba Country
B Niger River B Thomas Bowen B Ijaye B Southern Baptist Convention |
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