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'A MIGHTY OBSTACLE TO THE GOSPEL': BASEL MISSIONARIES, KROBO WOMEN, AND CONFLICTING IDEAS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY.

Investigates the 19th-century encounter between the Basel missionaries and the Krobo by focusing on dipo, a set of complex initiation rites for girls and the conflicting ideas of gender and sexuality. Background on dipo from pre-missionary times until 1892; Details on dipo and the problems of conve...

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Published in:Journal of Religion in Africa Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 200 - 231
Main Author: Steegstra, Marijke
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2002
Subjects:
Missionaries
Initiation rites
Krobo (African people)
Christianity
Africa
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