Item Detail
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31097
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2
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11
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English
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Gobert Edet and the Entry of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria - 1962-1966
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Journal of Mormon History
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2019
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45
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4
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Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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81-104
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[2020 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article on International Mormonism]
"This article relies on correspondence and missionary reports
housed at the Community of Christ Library Archive located in Independence, Missouri, to explore not only why Christian congregations
in southeastern Nigeria were drawn to the Reorganized Church, but
also the significance of RLDS fact-finding missions in southeastern Nigeria during the early 1960s for the church in the late twentieth
century. This essay makes two arguments. First, it argues that the members of Tommy’s church were drawn to the RLDS Church primarily
by a desire to improve their access to resources. Second, it contends
that the entry of the Reorganized Church into southeastern Nigeria
showcases the church’s shift towards a liberal Protestant message
focused on abolishing poverty and care for the poor that accompanied
the unprecedented international expansion of the RLDS Church
into the non-Western world during the 1960s.10 Unlike early RLDS
missionary strategies that focused on traditional proselytizing, RLDS
church leaders in the 1960s wanted to develop a mission strategy that
would allow the church to contribute to the long-term development
of the postcolonial Nigerian nation." -
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