Background
Fiedler, Klaus was born on January 25, 1942 in Wanne-Eickel, Germany. Son of Otto and Else (Görzen) Fiedler.
(The common charge laid against missionaries that they are...)
The common charge laid against missionaries that they are destroyers of African culture is shown to be untrue of the missionaries treated in this book, who worked with considerable success to integrate Christianity and African culture. The author examines the endeavours of the missionaries from the perspective of the local Christians, who were not themselves interested in Africanization as such. One can thus find some missionaries defending - against the elected African Church leadership - the right of the Chagga Christians to circumcise their daughters, and Nyakyusa Christians refusing to use African tunes because the missionaries - influenced by National Socialism - professed both love for African culture and white superiority.
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Fiedler, Klaus was born on January 25, 1942 in Wanne-Eickel, Germany. Son of Otto and Else (Görzen) Fiedler.
Student, Baptist Seminary, Hamburg, Federal Republic Germany, 1965. MTh, Baptist Seminary, Hamburg, Federal Republic Germany, 1984. Bachelor, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy in History, University Daressalam, Tanzania, 1978. Total harmonic distortion Heidelberg, Germany, 1991.
Missionary Missionshaus Wiedenest, Tanzania, 1968-1976. Pastor Baptist Union, Ratingen and Hochdahl, Federal Republic Germany, 1976-1992. Professor missiology Evangelische Theologische Fakulteit, Leuven, Belgium, since 1990.
Lecturer in theology University Malawi, Zomba, since 1992. Teacher State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ratingen, 1980-1992. Editor Oncken & Brockhaus Public, Kassel/Wuppertal, Germany, 1976-1980.
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(The common charge laid against missionaries that they are...)
Member German Missiological Society, International Association Mission Studies, Association of German Speaking Evangelical Missiologists (founding president 1984-1986, vice president 1986-1990, board directors 1990-1994), Southern African Missiological Society, Southern African Church History Society.
Married Irene Walther, April 4, 1967. Children: Sascha, Itika, Katja.