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Sign In or Create an Account. Close mobile search navigation Article navigation. The Nature of Christianity in Northern Tanzania: Environmental and Social Change, — For permissions, please e-mail: You do not currently have access to this article. You could not be signed in. Munson, electronic resource Publication Lanham, Maryland, Lexington Books, Bibliography note Includes bibliographical references pages and index Contents Northern Tanzania and history: Library Locations Map Details.
Munson conducted an impressive amount of research, making particularly effective use of German archives, but his ambitious attempt to combine environmental, colonial and mission histories in a single work left some gaps in his scholarship. To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above. Africa ; cinema ; diasporas ; media and communication studies Africa Drugs in Africa: Africa ; capacity building ; economic development ; environment ; governance ; natural resource management. Chapter 6 looks at changes in people as they evolved into Christians and Africanized environmental and social changes brought by Germans to expand their livelihood opportunities.
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Perhaps the most significant challenge faced by Munson, as by any scholar of early mission history, is to find enough evidence authored by Africans to give them well-rounded, central roles in the narrative. For example, there is little consideration of African customary land tenure or opposition to European ownership. Nevertheless, this is a meticulously researched and accessibly written examination of a relatively understudied dimension of how northern Tanzania became a thriving center of Lutheranism.
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