Cast as Written: Protestant Missionaries and their Translation of Molimo as the Christian God in 19th-century Southern Africa
This essay reads the 19th-century Protestant Christian missionary archive in order to explore how it deals with translating the term 'molimo' as (the Christian) God. It shows that this work of translation rests upon a binary division that Protestant Christian missionaries make between the...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
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Series: | Journal for the Study of Religion |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/jsr/v32n1/05.pdf |