Abstract

RUZIVO, Munetsi. Ecumenical initiatives in Southern Rhodesia: a history of the Southern Rhodesia missionary conference 1903-1945. Studia Hist. Ecc. [online]. 2017, vol.43, n.1, pp.1-17. ISSN 2412-4265.  http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2412-4265/2016/1000.

The article seeks, first and foremost, to investigate the origins, growth and development of the Southern Rhodesia Missionary Conference (SRMC) from 1903 to 1945. In the second place, the article will explore the formative factors that lay behind the rise of the ecumenical movement in the then Southern Rhodesia in 1903. In the third place, the study endeavours to examine the impact of the SRMC on the social, religious and political landscape of the country from 1903 to 1945. The research will make use of minutes of the SRMC, newspapers and books with information that date back to the period under investigation.

Keywords : Southern Rhodesia Missionary Conference (SRMC); Land Tenure Act; African education; African marriages; Maize Control Act; racial tensions.

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