A case of hopeless failure: The role of missionaries in the transformation of Southern Africa's indigenous architecture

Missionary efforts in Southern Africa during the 19th and early 20th centuries focused primarily upon its indigenous people, seeking to bring changes to their patterns of living. Faced with such issues as polygamy, initiation, child price (lobola), ancestral worship, beer drinking, and teenage sexua...

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Main Author: Franco Frescura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
Series:Journal for the Study of Religion
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1011-76012015000200004&lng=en&tlng=en