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Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa

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Description for Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa Paperback. This book explores the impact of Americans' faith-based educational initiatives on the lives of school children in East Africa, as seen from the perspectives of American missionaries and East Africans alike. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFG; HRA; JNL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 407. Weight in Grams: 340.

American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach examines missionary involvement in East Africa from the perspectives of both Americans and East Africans.

While Evangelicals frame their work in terms of spreading Christianity, critics see it as destroying traditional culture. Challenging assumptions on both sides, this work reveals a complex and ever-evolving exchange ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804768511
SKU
V9780804768511
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99-50

About Amy Stambach
Amy Stambach is Director of Global Studies and Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro: Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa (2000).

Reviews for Faith in Schools: Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa
"Each section flows seamlessly into the next in capturing the movement of people, ideas, and cultural values across the two continents . . . Stambach's rigorous field research informed by her keen anthropological and ethnographical perspectives and longstanding cultural experience in the region are richly rewarding to read."—Malini Sivasubramaniam, Journal of Education and Christian Belief "Stambach's ethnographic examination ... Read more

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