Essays about: "missionaries"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the word missionaries.

1. 1. Cultural Clash and Colonial Consequences: A Comprehensive Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Foosey Abdulgadir; [2023]
   Keywords : European missionaries; Christianity; Postcolonialism; Igbo culture; Cultural clash; Christian missionaries; ancestral spirits; British colonialists;

   Abstract : This paper explores Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958) within the context of postcolonial theory, focusing on the clash between traditional Igbo culture and the forces of European imperialism. Achebe's work serves as a response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899) and challenges the stereotypical portrayal of Africans. READ MORE

3. 2. Speaking With Our Spirits : A Character Analysis of Eugene Achike in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Chelsea Foreman; [2017]
   Keywords : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; African Literature; Postcolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Colonial Nigeria; Religion; Christianity; Language; Behaviour; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Chinua Achebe; Afrikansk Litteratur; Postkolonialism; Purple Hibiscus; Koloniala Nigeria; Religion; Kristendom; Språk; Beteende;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to conduct a character analysis on Eugene Achike from Chimamana Ngozi Adichie’s novel Purple Hibiscus, to see whether or not the character is used by Adichie as a portrayal of colonial Nigeria and its values. I have done this by looking at the themes of violence and hypocrisy in relation to Eugene’s language usage, religious attitude, and behaviour towards others, and comparing these aspects of his personality with the attitudes shown by colonialists in colonial Nigeria. READ MORE

4. 3. The Portrayal of Religion in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Kristian Moseley; [2017]
   Keywords : religion; igbo; Achebe; Things Fall Apart; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In this essay, the portrayal of religion as well as the role that religion plays in Igbo community in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is examined, as well as the impact that the missionaries and their religion had on Igbo society. Chinua Achebe was well acquainted with Igbo society and portrays it honestly. READ MORE

5. 4. Energy Analysis of an Historical Church, Sjömanskyrkan : Energy balance and efficiency measures

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik

   Author : Jonay Rodríguez Sánchez; [2014]
   Keywords : Energy analysis; Church; Energy Balance; Efficiency;

   Abstract : The main topic of this project is to do an energy study of the Mariners’ Church, ‘Sjömanskyrkan’, placed in the Centralplan of Gävle, Sweden. This is an old building built in the late 1800’s by the evangelic-lutheran missionaries and nowadays is used to realize different cultural activities such as concerts, meetings, workshops…   Energy is one of the most important points in the actual society. READ MORE

6. 5. Missionaries in development

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Isak Simonsson; [2014]
   Keywords : Missionaries; Development; Liberation theology; Dependency theory; Capabilities theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The main study of missionaries has commonly been practiced within the field of mission study. The impact of missionaries has however not just been within the field of theology since there is a tradition to be a part of a foreign aid as well. READ MORE