1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996386059603316

Autore

Baxter Richard <1615-1691.>

Titolo

The cure of church-divisions: or, Directions for weak Christians, to keep them from being dividers, or troublers of the church [[electronic resource] ] : with some directions to the pastors, how to deal with such Christians. The second edition. By Richard Baxter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for Nevil Symmons at the three Crowns over against Holborn-Conduit, 1670

Descrizione fisica

[48], 384, 383-430, [12] p

Soggetti

Church polity

Schism

Pastoral theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

At end: two leaves of synopsis, three leaves of bibliography and advertisements, and a vertical half-title: Baxter's Cure for church-divisions.

Reproduction of the original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910985674103321

Autore

Vaughan Olufemi

Titolo

Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison : , : University of Wisconsin Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9780299344535

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 pages)

Collana

Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture Series

Disciplina

966.9/25092

Soggetti

Families

Biography

HISTORY / General

Sources

History

Biographies

Electronic books.

Ibadan (Nigeria) Biography Sources

Ibadan (Nigeria) History 20th century Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword by Adesoji Adelaja -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Brothers' Letters -- 2. The Matriarchs' Letters -- 3. Ibadan CMS Men: Kinship and Yorùbá Civic Life -- 4. The Gladys Aduekẹ Vaughan Files -- 5. From Freetown with Love -- Conclusion

Sommario/riassunto

"In 2003, Olufemi Vaughan received from his ninety-five-year-old father, Abiodun, a trove of more than 3,000 letters written by four generations of his family in Ibadan, Nigeria, between 1926 to 1994. The men and women who wrote these letters had emerged from the religious, social, and educational institutions established by the Church Missionary Society, the preeminent Anglican mission in the Atlantic Nigerian region following the imposition of British colonial rule. Abiodun, recruited to be a civil servant in the colonial administration, became the patriarch of a prominent family with historical roots in both West Africa and the Americas; his family was the subject of articles in



Ebony and Jet as well as in acclaimed histories. Reading deeply in these letters, Olufemi realized he had a unique set of sources that could be used to illuminate everyday life for this important segment of Nigerian society. Letter writing was a dominant form of communication for western-educated elites in colonial Africa, especially in Nigeria. Exposure and an altruistic sense of nationalism were among the factors that led people to begin exchanging letters, particularly in their interactions with British colonial authorities. Through careful textual analysis and broad contextualization, Vaughan reconstructs dominant storylines, including themes such as people's relationships with colonial authorities and bureaucracy, ideas about faith and kinship, nationalism and communal development. Vaughan brings his prodigious skills as a historian to bear on this wealth of information, bringing to life a portrait, at once intimate and expansive, of a community during a transformative period in African history"--