Enlightenment racial views shaped missionary evangelization strategy in Africa

Evidence

Needless to say, the views of these eminent philosophers gained so much traction in European societies that their views determined the approach of missionary activities in the continent. Any student of missionary activities in Africa is aware of the fact that the missionary approach to the evangelization of Africa reflected the attitudes and ideas that Europeans had about Africa and its people. In their evangelization of Africa, almost all members of the different Christian missionary congregations that descended on the continent towards the end of the nineteenth century, including Tempels’s congregation of the Franciscans, did not hold Africans in high regard. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 136

Categorization

• XREF: Direct causal chain relevant to reader’s interest in how philosophical ideas translate into institutional practice; relevant to missionary/Tempels context of the reading goal. — connects to: Anti-African supremacist rhetoric was amplified through missionary channels — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 40; Northern Baptist missionaries imposed culturally chauvinist worship norms on black congregations — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 544