The Troubled Knot: Tying Church Discipline to ‘Christian Marriage’ in African Contexts

This article examines the historic discourse on public discipline around sexuality in the African context and its ascendancy, through missionary emphasis on Christian marriage, across multiple denominations and cultural locations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foreign missionaries and Af...

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Published in:The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Main Author: SNOW, JENNIFER C.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Subjects:
Religious studies
History
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046919000666
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