Missões Batistas em Angola e Moçambique no período de descolonização: apontamentos para uma discussão do discurso da revista O Campo é o Mundo

Abstract

This paper discusses the aspects of cultural relations between Brazilian Baptist missionaries and African Angolans and Mozambicans in the early seventies of the twentieth century. The material analyzed consists of fragments of the missionary magazine The Field is the World, produced by the Foreign Mission Board of the Baptist Church. Also in the text, the ideas of representation and alterity in Roger Chartier, Tzevetan Todorov and Stuart Hall respectively. Beyond notions of discourse analysis from the authors Enni Orlandi and Helena Nagamini Brandão. As the central problem, we highlight the role of the African historical subject. Keywords: Missions-Africa-otherness.