Commemorative Textiles and Anglican Church History in Ondo, Nigeria

Autor:	Tunde M. Akinwumi, Elisha P. Renne
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Project commissioning General Arts and Humanities media_common.quotation_subject Art History of Christianity Ancient history Christianity Church history Visual arts media_common
Zdroj:	TEXTILE. 6:126-144
ISSN:	1751-8350 1475-9756
DOI:	10.2752/175183508x327776
Popis:	The history of the Anglican Church in Nigeria, beginning with its establishment by European missionaries and continued by Nigerian clergy, reflects changing ecclesiastical concerns, which have been discussed in the considerable literature on the history of Christianity in Nigeria. This paper takes a different approach to Anglican Church history in the town of Ondo, in southwestern Nigeria, by focusing on four different commemorative anniversary cloths commissioned by two Anglican churches in Ondo and by the Anglican Diocese, Ondo, from 1925 to 2002. These cloths reflect the different concerns of church leaders during the times when they were made as well as the manufacturing techniques used in their production. This analysis of the four anniversary cloths differs from other studies of commemorative textiles as it details the extensive negotiations that went into the decisions made by particular church leaders, both in the design and commissioning of these cloths from textile manufacturers first in...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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