Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania
Environmental and Social Change 1890-1916
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Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739177808
Published: 29/10/2013
The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania explores the relationship between the environment and social change on Mt Kilimanjaro and Mt Meru during the German colonial period (1890-1916). The work analyzes the synergy between landscape change, exotic plant introduction, and Christian missionizing, showing how these three types of transformation impacted upon each other as well as the changing African societies to create a new African/German landscape.
Robert Munson makes skillful use of German archival sources to present a detailed and well-researched examination of the impact of German colonial missions on the landscape of the Kilimanjaro-Meru regions. The rich, fact filled text and numerous illustrations paint an interesting and thoughtful picture of the German missionaries' perceptions of the East African landscape and their efforts to reshape that landscape. This is an important contribution to scholarship in the fields of the environmental, religious, and colonial history of East Africa. -- Michael DiBlasi, Editor, International Journal of African Historical Studies, Boston University Munson's work on the ecological history of the Kilimanjaro region is unique, since it brings together his skills in German, kiSwahili, and historical geography. His field work in the region allows him to reconstruct both the physical landscape and the role of mission ideology that helped shape it. This is a work of substantial erudition that contributes a great deal to our understanding of African environmental history. -- James C. McCann, Professor and Associate Director, Boston University