TY - BOOK ID - 78149199 TI - Mission station Christianity PY - 2013 VL - 44 SN - 09249389 SN - 9004257403 9789004257405 1299829929 9781299829923 9789004254886 9004254889 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Missions, Norwegian KW - Norwegian missions KW - History KW - Missions, Norwegian - South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal - History - 19th century. KW - Missions, Norwegian - South Africa - Zululand - History - 19th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78149199 AB - In Mission Station Christianity , Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880's, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850's. ER -