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Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen
Das Verhaltnis christlicher Missionare und Missionsgesellschaften gegenuber den politischen Machthabern und Bewegungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert steht im Mittelpunkt des Sammelbandes. Die Beitrage analysieren sowohl die wechselseitigen Beziehungen der Leitungen von Missionsgesellschaften zu den jeweiligen Regierungen in Europa als auch das Verhaltnis ihrer Missionare - Manner und Frauen - auf den Arbeitsfeldern in Asien und Afrika zu den lokal bzw. regional maageblichen politischen Kraften (Kolonialmachte eigener oder fremder Nationalitat, souverane Staaten, lokale politische Systeme und Unabhangigkeitsbewegungen) in den einzelnen Facetten. Aus dem Inhalt C. Auffarth: aWeltreligiono als ein Leitbegriff der Religionswissenschaft im Imperialismus T. de Souza: D. Jose da Costa Nunes - a Patriarch who Cared for More than Souls: a Case of Caesaro-papism in Portuguese India, 1942-1953 R. Elphick: Dutch Reformed Missions and the Roots of the Apartheid Ideology W. Ustorf: Kairos 1933 - Occidentosis, Christofascism, and Mission K. Poewe: Liberalism, German Missionaries, and National Socialism u.a.
Memory and Identity
"This edited volume contains ... papers that were presented at the 1997 international symposium 'Out of New Babylon: The Huguenots and their Diaspora', held at the College of Charleston, South Carolina"-- Library of Congress.
The Moser Family in South Africa
François Joseph Moser (1833-1911)--third child of Jean George Moser and Lucie Zinck--was born in Ribeauvillé, Alsace, France, served in the British German Legion during the Crimean War, and then immigrated to the Wiesbaden area of the Cape Colony, South Africa. He married Emily Blanks in 1876, and moved to Berlin, Cape Colony, South Africa. Descendants and relatives lived in Cape Colony, Transvaal and else- where. Some descendants immigrated to Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe), Australia and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in the Alsace area of France or Germany to the 1500s, and in Finland to the 1700s.
Through the Chequered Path
History of the 59 English settlers led by William Howard which helped found Grahamstown, Cape Province, South Africa. Includes genealogical information about their families.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
