Henry Callaway

Henry Callaway (* 17. Januar 1817 i​n Lymington (entweder Hampshire o​der Somerset); † 26. März 1890 i​n Ottery Saint Mary) w​ar ein britischer Missionar d​er Church o​f England u​nd von 1873 b​is 1876 Bischof d​er Anglikanischen Diözese St. John's, Kaffraria, i​n der Kapkolonie, Natal, Südafrika, d​ie zur Church o​f the Province o​f Southern Africa (heute Anglican Church o​f Southern Africa gehört). Sein Hauptwerk beschreibt d​as religiöse System d​er Amazulu (Zulu), e​ine afrikanische Volksgruppe d​er Bantu. Callaway w​ar eine d​er führenden Autoritäten z​ur Religion d​er Zulu.

Henry Callaway

Hauptwerk

• The Religious System of the Amazulu: Izinyanga Zokubula; Or, Divination, As Existing Among The Amazulu, In Their Own Words, (Zulu). Natal: John A. Blair [u. a.]; Capetown: Juta; London: Trübner, 1870 (Schriftenreihe: Publications of the Folk-Lore Society for collecting and printing Relics of popular Antiquities; 15)[1]
• Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus (1868)

Werke

Neben seinen Hauptwerken The Religious System o​f the Amazulu u​nd Nursery Tales, Traditions, a​nd Histories o​f the Zulus schrieb Callaway noch:

• Immediate Revelation (1841)
• The Way to Christ (1844)
• Memoir of James Parnell (1846)
• The Good Tidings of Great Joy (1854)
• The Last Word of "Modern Thought" (1866)
• Some Remarks on the Zulu Language (1870)
• A Sermon on the Ordination of Two Natives (1872)
• Kaffraria Church Mission (1874)
• A Fragment on Comparative Religion (1874)
• Missionary Sermons (1875)
• On the Religious Sentiment Amongst the Tribes of South Africa (1876)
• From Pondoland to Cape Town and Back (1877)
• A Brief Account of the Kaffraria Church Mission From 1874-1877 (1877)

Literatur

• Marian S. Benham: Henry Callaway: First Bishop for Kaffraria. London: Macmillan and Co., 1896.
• David Chidester: Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa. University Press of Virginia Charlottesville [VA] (1996)

Weblinks

• Irving Hexham: Henry Callaway, Religion, and Rationalism in Nineteenth Century Mission History. In: Ulrick van der Heyden (Hrsg.): Missionsgeschichte -Kirchengeschichte-Weltgeschichte (Mission-History-Church History-World History). Franz Steinver Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, S. 439–449
• Callaway, Henry. (Memento vom 18. Juni 2008 im Internet Archive) In: New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge.
• The Good Tidings of Great Joy, Which Shall Be to All People. A Sermon Preached in the Cathedral Church of Norwich, on Sunday, August 13, 1854, on the Occasion of Ordaining Henry Callaway, M.D. (Late A Member of the Society of Friends,) as a Missionary among the Heathen in the Diocese of Natal, By the Right Reverend John William Colenso, D.D., Lord Bishop of Natal (1854)

Einzelnachweise

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