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The African churchesof Tanzania\n\nhttps://archive.org/details/africanchurcheso0000unse  \nHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF TANZANIA PAPER No.5  \nThe African churchesof Tanzania  \nbyT.O.RANGERThe University CollegeDar es Salaam  \n# ◎T.O.RANGER and THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF TANZANIA\n\nThe publication of a pamphlet by the Historical Association ofTanzania does not necessarily imply the Association's officialapproval of the opinions expressed therein.  \nReprinted in 1972  \n# ACKNOWLEDGEMENT\n\nProfessor Ranger wishes to thank the Research and PublicationsCommittee of the University College,Dar es Salaam,for itssupport for the research which made it possible to write thispamphlet.  \nA  \n# THE AFRICAN CHURCHES OFTANZANIA\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nAfrican initiative in the Christian history of Tanzania  \nThe story of the establishment and spread of Christianity inTanzania is usually told in a one-sided and incomplete way.Most of the books which have so far been published on Tanzania'sChristian history have been books about European missionariesrather than books about African converts,catechists and teachers.It is high time for historians to record the very important con-tribution made by African Christians to the establishment oftheir faith.  \nFrom the very beginning African catechists and teachers borethe main burden of conversion.European missionaries were few,the areas affected by the Christian impact were large.In manyplaces the first news of Christianity was brought by Africancatechists;in nearly all places the continuing presence of Christianinfluence depended upon the resident catechist or teacher.Aschurches became more established African Christians took muchof the initiative in the competition which sprang up between rivalmissions.When first British and then German missionaries wereremoved from the field as a result of the 1914-18 war theresponsibility for maintaining the local churches passed intoAfrican hands.In many places local African leaders held theposition;in some they improved upon it;in others they stoodout against very considerable pressure from incoming Englishmissionaries and ensured the survival of congregations foundedby German Catholic or Protestant societies.  \nBetween the two world wars African catechists and evangelistsagain bore the main responsibility for the extension of Christianinfluence.In some churches,too,there was a deliberate prepara-tion of Africans for administrative and other responsibilities in theevent of another expulsion of missionaries.A^second expulsiondid come about in the 1939-45 war in which a number ofTanzanian churches were under effective and sophisticated Africancontrol.  \nA fully satisfactory history of Christianity in Tanzania willhave to take into account the initiative of African catechists andteachers and ministers;the initiative of the people who invitedthem,who responded to them,who competed for village schools.It will have to take into account the growing control of Africansover the administration of the “mission”churches.And it willhave to take into account the activities of African Christiansoutside the historic “mission”churches.  \nThis short pamphlet does not set out to write a history of theChurch in Tanzania.It is an attempt to record only one aspectof African initiative and by no means the most important.Ittells the story of African Christian activity outside the“mission”churches;the story of the so-called African independent churches.  \nOutside Tanzania such African independent churches haveattracted the attention of writers and scholars of all kinds.Historians of religion,political historians,social historians havegiven us studies of the independent churches of Uganda andKenya,of the Congo,of Zambia and Malawi.On Tanzanianindependent churches very little has been written.This is partlybecause independency has been","cbCaivUc9H5Ukrjv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivUc9H5Ukrjv","pdf",2505290,36,"English","# Introduction\n## African 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