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Tanzania (Tanganyika) |
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BEGINNINGS |
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1922 |
Singida Area |
Evangelical Lutheran
Augustana Synod (to assist Leipzig Missions during World War I) (AUG -
LCA - ELCA) |
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1927 |
Iramba Area |
Evangelical Lutheran
Augustana Synod |
| 1940 |
orphaned mission areas |
Evangelical Lutheran
Augustana Synod |
| 1952 |
orphaned mission areas |
National Lutheran Council
Commission on Younger Churches and Orphaned Missions (asked by Augustana
to take over orphaned areas) |
| 1952 |
Singida, Iramba |
Augustana Evangelical
Lutheran Church (resumes its own mission and Ihanja work) |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| Anderson, George N. Iramba
Exercises. Singida, Tanganyika: Augustana Lutheran Mission, 1956.
139pp. |
Augustana Theological
Seminary. Foreign Missions Seminar, 1954. George N. Anderson, guest
lecturer. Rock Island, Ill., Augustana Theological Seminary, 1954.
Animism, Iramba tribe in central Tanganyika.
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago |
Benson, Marie. Marie’s Memoirs: Farmer’s Daughter in
Africa. Self-published, 2006. 98pp.
Location: ELCA Archives, biographical file
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Benson, Ruth Bonander, ed.
Africa. Minneapolis.: The Board of Foreign Missions, Augustana
Synod, 1948(?) 48 pp.
Published in collaboration with the Lutheran
Augustana Synod Centennial Committee on Life and Growth.
Location: Luther Seminary |
| Bernander, Gustav Addik.
Lutheran Wartime Assistance to Tanzanian Churches 1940-1945. Lund:
Gleerup, 1968. 170 pp. |
Brown, Della, and Mary
Carlson. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Della Brown, AUG/LCA missionary to
Tanzania, 1952-1978. |
Bystrom, Martin. Letters
from Africa. (7.5MB pdf file)
 Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1951. 148
pp.
Letters to family members written by Martin
Bystrom, missionary to Tanganyika Territory, from 1942 to his death in
1945 after a brief illness. |
Cunningham, Gloria and Lois
Okerstrom. Touched by the African Soul. Hillsboro, Kan.:
Partnership Book Services, 1998.
First-person stories by sixty-two missionary
women who served in the central Tanganyika/Tanzania area (Singida
area). |
Danielson, Elmer R. Forty
Years with Christ in Tanzania, 1928 - 1968. New York: World Mission
Interpretation, Lutheran Church in America, 1977. 236 pp.
Personal account of Danielsons’ service in
Tanzania, as well as information about the growth of the church in
Tanzania. Second edition published in 1996. |
| Danielson, Elmer R. Gateway
to Sonjo. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1959.
56pp. |
| Danielson, Elmer R. Stars
Over Africa. Rock Island, IL: Augustana Book Concern, 1953.
48pp. |
Dibble, J. Birney. In This
Land of Eve: A Year with an American Surgeon in East Africa. New York:
Abingdon, 1965 160 pp.
The everyday life of a missionary doctor,
Joseph Norquist, at Kiomboi Lutheran Hospital in Tanganyika, East
Africa, in 1963-64. |
Dibble, J. Birney. The
Plains Brood Alone: Tribesmen of the Serengeti. Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Zondervan Publishing House, 1973 200 pp.
Description of the context of the Kiomboi
Lutheran Hospital in Tanzania. |
Erickson, Helen, and Solveig
Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Helen Erickson, AUG/LCA missionary
to Tanzania, 1945-1983. |
| Faust, Harold. Mang’ati:
Encounters in the Old Africa. Iron Mountain, Mich.: Mailbox Depot
Inc., 1998. 162pp. |
Faust, Louise, and Solveig
Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Louise Faust, AUG/LCA missionary to
Tanzania, 1949-1976. |
| Flatt, Donald C. Africa
Calling. N.p., 1997 |
| Flatt, Donald C. Man and Diety
in an African Society: A Study of Religion, Meaning, and Values among the
Ilarusa of North Tanzania. New York: Division of World Mission and
Ecumenism of the Lutheran Church in America, 1980. 383pp. |
Friberg, Eileen. Njiani: a
Journal. N.p.: Eileen Friberg, 1999. 136 pp.
Author's account of some of her time in
Africa as well as her spiritual journey through life.
Location:
ELCA Archives, Chicago - uncatalogued
item |
| Gilseth, Maragret Chrislock.
Home on Kilimanjaro. St.Charles, Minn.: Askelwood Press, n.d.
186pp. |
| Hall, George Fridolph. Come
Along to Tanganyika. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison., 1963. 175 pp.
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Hall, George Fridolph. The
Theological Task of the Missionary." Augustana Seminary Review 6,
no. 2, (1954) 26 pp.
"The field surveyed is Tanganyika Territory,
East Africa." |
Hallelujah! Sing to the
Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful! In
Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Usambara-Digo Lutheran
Church, 27th of August, 1961. Lushoto, Tanganyika: 1961. 20 pp.
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago. |
Halvorson, Marian, and Solveig
Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Marian Halvorson, AUG/LCA
missionary to Tanzania, 1946-1973. |
| Hellberg, Carl J. Missions
on a Colonial Frontier West of Lake Victoria; Evangelical Missions in
Northwest Tanganyika to 1932. [Lund; distributed by Gleerups], 1965.
256 pp. |
Holmes, Grace E. Foege, M.D.
On Safari, A Collection of Stories. Lima Oh.: Fairway Press, 1998.
196 pp.
Location: ELCA Archives,
Chicago. |
| Holmes, Grace E. Foege, M.D.
Whither Thou Goest - I Will Go. Lima,Oh.: Fairway Press, 1992. 240
pp. |
| Hult, John. Daktari Yohana,
An American Pediatrician in Eastern Africa. Springfield, MO: Quiet
Waters Publications, 1999. 200pp. |
Johansson, Alice, and Solveig
Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Alice Johansson, AUG/LCA missionary
to Tanzania, 1954-1965. |
| Johnson, Victor Eugene. The
Augustana Lutheran Mission of Tanganyika Territory, East Africa. Rock
Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1939. 24 pp. |
Johnson, Victor Eugene.
Pioneering for Christ in East Africa. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana
Book Concern, 1948. 192 pp.
Autobiography of author, who served in East
Africa from 1928 to 1946 under the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Augustana Synod. Account of his work. |
| Kidamala, Daudi, comp., "A
Brief History of the Waniramba People Up to the Time of the German
Occupation." trans. E.R. Danielson. Tanganyika Notes and Records 56
(1961): 67 - 78. Manuscript (3.16MB
PDF), Published (0.78MB
PDF), Iramba (4.19MB
PDF). |
| Larson, Mabel. Partners in
Education: Ilboru Secondary School 1946 - 1969. N.p.,
1977. |
| Lema, Anza Amen. Partners
in Education in Mainland Tanzania. Arusha, Tanzania.: N.p., 1972.
174pp. |
| Lindqvist, Ingmar. Partners
in Mission: A Case-Study of the Missionary Practice of the Lutheran
Foreign Mission Agency Involvement in Tanzania since the Early 1960's Seen
in a Historical and Theological Perspective. Abo: Abo Akademi:
Distribution, Tidningsbokhandeln, 1982. 268 pp. |
| Moris, Stanley W. M.D.
Which Doctor: Medical Experience on Three Continents. 177 pp.
Idaho: The Author, 1997. |
Niwagila, Wilson B. From
the Catacomb to a Self-Governing Church: a Case Study of the African
Initiative and the Participation of the Foreign Missions in the Mission
History of the North-Western Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Tanzania, 1890-1965. Ammersbek b.Hamburg: (Peter Jensen) Verlag an der
Lottbex, 1988. 474 pp.
Originally presented as the author’s doctoral
thesis, University of Hamburg. Foreword in
German. |
| Nyimbo Za Kikristo:
Msifuni Mungu, Mfalme Wa Mbingu Na Nchi. Tanganyika: Makanisa Ya
Kilutheri Ya Tangayika, 1958. 57pp. |
| Okerstrom, Lois Fisher.
Mosaic, Remembrances Rewrites Reflections. Privately published by
the author. 271pp |
| Olson, Howard S.
Footprints: Memoirs of Howard S. Olson. Privately printed, Tampa:
Perfection Printing Company, 2001. 396 pp. |
| Olson, Howard S. A Grain of Mustard Seed: Homilies.
Privately published by the author, 2002. |
| Olson, Howard S. Jifunze
Kiyunani (Teach Yourself New Testament Greek). Rev. 2nd ed.
Dodoma: Central Tanganika Press, 1985. |
| Olson, Howard S. Lead Us
Lord: A Collection of African Hymns. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing
House, 1977. |
| Olson, Howard S. Reference
Companion to Set Free: African Ethnic Hymns. N.p.: Howard S. Olson,
2002. 78 pp. |
Olson, Howard S. Set Free:
A Collection of African Hymns. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress,
1993
Thirty African ethnic hymns in staff notation
with English texts, eight of which are also in Swahili. Published with
accompanying cassette tape. |
Olson, Howard S. Spoken
Rimi. N.p. 1961.
A six-month course for learning to speak the
Cahi Dialect of the Rimi Language. Included 18 traditional folk songs
previously known only as part of oral tradition, but now in staff
notation.
Location: no information
available |
| Olson, Howard S. Rudiments
of Remi Grammar. Singida.:N.p., 1951 |
Olson, Howard S.
Tumshangilie Mungu Nyimboza Kikristo za Kiafrika. 6th
ed. Nairobi: Printfast Kenya; Nairobi: Lutheran Theological College,
1987.
152 Swahili hymns, harmonized and with a
translation of many of these hymns into English, German, and
French. |
| Olson, Howard S., comp.
Tumshangilie Mungu: Nyimb za Kikristo za Kiafrika 4th
ed. Makumira, Tanzania: Lutheran Theological College, 1973. |
Olson, Louise, and Mary
Carlson. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Division for Global Mission,
1993.
Narrator: Louise Olson, AUG/LCA/ELCA
missionary to Tanzania, 1946-1988. |
Pedersen, Helen, and Solveig
Swendseid. Women in Global Mission: an Oral History. Chicago:
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 1993.
Narrator: Helen Pedersen, AUG/LCA missionary
to Tanzania, 1950-1962. |
Pedersen, Ruben A. Karibu:
Selected Thoughts and Stories from Africa. N.p., 1994.
Location: no information
available |
| Sicard, Sigard von. The
Lutheran Church on the Coast of Tanzania, 1887-1914. With Special
Reference to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Synod of
Uzaramo-Uluguru. Lund: Gleerup, 1970. 260 pp. |
Smedjebacka, Henrik.
Lutheran Church Autonomy in Northern Tanzania 1940-1963. Abo: Abo
Akademi, 1973. 372 pp.
Background and development of Lutheran
autonomy in Northern Diocese of Tanzania. |
Sundkler, Bengt. Bara
Bukoba: Church and community in Tanzania. London: C. Hurst, 1980. 229
pp.
First published in Swedish as Bara Bukoba:
Kyrka och miljo i Tanzania Includes subject: Lutheran Church in
Tanzania. |
| Sundkler, Bengt. Ebarua
y’Askofu: Pastoral Letter to the Evangelical Church of North Western
Tanganyika. Bukoba, Tanganyika: n.p., 1961. 76 pp. |
Swanson, S. Hjalmar.
Touring Tanganyika. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern,
1948. 221 pp.
Account of trip to Africa, with most of the
time spent in Tanganyika, in the 1940s. Dates not
given. |
Swanson, S. Hjalmar, ed.
Zamzam: The Story of a Strange Missionary Odyssey. Minneapolis: The
Board of Foreign Missions of the Augustana Synod, 1941.
The story of the sinking of the ship
Zamzam which contained mostly missionary passengers, including
their life on board, rescue and subsequent events and
travel. |
Swantz, Lloyd W. Church,
Mission and State Relations in Pre and Post Independent Tanzania
(1955-1964). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University, 1965. 50 pp.
Occasional paper no. 19 of Maxwell Graduate
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Program of Eastern African
Studies. |
| The Church Meets Life in
the Town: Report of a Consultation Under the Auspices of Tanganyika Rapid
Social Change Study, Commission "C" Sponsored by the Christian Council of
Tanganyika and the East Africa Committee for the Urban Africa Programme
Sponsored by the All Africa Conference of Churches: 14th-21st May, 1964,
Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.Nairobi: East Africa Committee for the Urban
Africa Programme of the All Africa Conference of Churches,
1964. |
Tanzania: the People, the
Land, the Church. Produced by ELCA Division for Global Mission, 1991.
Videocassette.
Videocassette of slides and
text. |
Trobisch, Ingrid Hult. On
Our Way Rejoicing. Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,
1986. 229 pp.
Story of Ingrid Hult Trobisch, eldest
daughter of Tanganyika missionary pastor Ralph Hult. Sinking of the
Zamzam on which Hult traveled to Tanganyika. Missionary work of
Ingrid and others of the ten Hult siblings. Previous editions: Harper,
1964; Hodder & Stoughton, 1964. |
| Ward, Robert E. Messengers
of Love. Kearney, Neb.: Morris Publishing. 1999 443pp. |
| THESES
AND DISSERTATIONS |
| Auyoo,
Paulo Isack. "Effective Pastoral Leadership in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Tanzania with Reference to the Northern
Diocese." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1987.
244 pp. |
Benson,
J. Stanley. "A Study of the Religious Beliefs and Practices of
the Maasai Tribe and the Implications for the Work of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania." Masters' thesis, N.p.,
1974.
Location: Luther Seminary
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| Bocko,
Joe S. "The Historical Background of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Tanzania, North Western Diocese." S.T.M. thesis,
Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1984. 110pp. |
Faust,
Harold V. "Some Implications of Marriage as an Order of
Creation with Special Reference to Marriage Problems Confronting the
Christian Evangelization of the Barabaig in Tanzania." S.T.M.
thesis, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 1965.
Location: no information available
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| Fue,
Peter. "Apostolic Succession: The Crisis of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in Tanzania." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg
Theological Seminary 1989. 149pp. |
Gunda,
Zephaniah. "The Significance of the Arusha Declaration as Seen
in the Light of the Teaching and Practices of the Christian Church
in Tanzania Today." STM thesis, Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, 1970. 97 pp.
Includes subject: Lutheran Church in Tanzania.
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| Kabugumila,
Kokuhilwa Alice. "Church Discipline in the North-Western
Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania." S.T.M.
thesis, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1986. 172 pp. |
| Kafunzile,
Sylvester. "Church Discipline in the Northwestern Diocese of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania." S.T.M. thesis,
Wartburg Theological Seminary 1990. 149pp. |
| Kibira,
Josiah Mutabuzi. "A Study of Christianity among the Bahaya
tribe: West-Lake Region, Tanganyika." S.T.M. thesis, Boston
University, [1964?]. 144 pp. |
Kijanga,
Peter Alute S. "Ujamaa and the Role of the Church in
Tanzania." Ph.D. diss., Aquinas Institute of Theology,
1977.
(Aquinas cooperates with Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, in
doctoral studies.)
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Lundström,
Klas I. "Contextualizing Theology in Relation to Traditional
Ancestor Beliefs in Southern Tanzania." Th.M. thesis,
Fuller Theological Seminary, 1995. 133 pp.
Contextual theology in relation to ancestor beliefs among the
Bena and Nyakyusa in Tanzania. Advocates christological
"ancestor models" as well as "non-ancestor
models."
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| Lyattuu,
Daniel J. "The Impact of the Chief and Missionary as Religions
Leaders on the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania Northern
Diocese: A Critical Evaluation in Light of the Servant Image of
Christ." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary
1993. 134pp. |
| Malle,
Anastasia. "Hagar Names God: A Woman’s Vision Arising in the
Midst of Pain: Genesis 16 and 21." S.T.M. thesis,
Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1992. 261pp. |
| Mande,
Elia. "Doing Mission in the Context of Warimi Culture in
Singida, Tanzania." Masters' thesis, Luther Northwestern
Theological Seminary, 1987. 219 pp. |
| Manyiewa,
Shadrack. " Contextualization of the Gospel in the Kinga
Culture." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary,
1987. 188pp. |
| Mutashobya,
Festo Mutaboyelwa E. "Death in Bahaya/Banyambo Culture and the
Church’s Response. STM thesis, Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia, 1978. 104 pp. |
Mwakagali,
Gwakisa Elijahu Kafuko. "The Johannine Concept of Life: An
Exegetical and Hermeneutical Study with Reference to the Nyakyusa
Pre-Understanding." Th..D. diss., Lutheran School of
Theology at Chicago, 1992.
Location: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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| Mwasamwaja,
Owens, Jonah A. "Social Justice, the Church, and Rural
Development in Tanzania." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg Theological
Seminary, 1989. 147pp. |
| Ndoponoi,
Mwanga Ole. "The Resurgence of Islam in Tanzania: Implications
for Christian Mission and Ministry Today." S.T.M. thesis,
Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, 1996. |
Olson,
Howard. "The Phonology and Morphology of Rimi." Ph.D. diss.,
Hartford Seminary Foundation., 1964.
Ph.D. thesis analyzing the Girwana Dialect of the Rimi
Language. Published as Hartford Studies in Linguistics, No. 14.
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| Shao,
Martin F. "Bruno Gutmann’s Missionary Method and Its
Influence on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania Northern
Diocese." S.T.M. thesis, Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1985.
179pp. |
| Swantz,
Lloyd William. "The Zaramo of Tanzania: An Ethnographic Study."
master's. thesis, Syracuse University, 1956. |
| Urio,
Aaron. "The Concept of Memory in the Chagga Life Cycle in
Relation to Christian Eucharistic Traditions." S.T.M. thesis,
Wartburg Theological Seminary, 1986. 229pp. |
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| MANUSCRIPTS |
Baglo,
Ferdy E., Through the Years: A Baglo Family Journal
(unpublished) 323pp.
Unpublished memoirs of an LCA missionary couple. Rev. and Mrs.
Baglo served in Tanzania from 1960 to 1965.
Location: contact author: Rev. Baglo, 8650 Grand
View Rd., Chilliwad, BC, Canada, J2R4A1.
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Flatt,
Donald, A Courageous Life: A Partial Biography of Ruth E.
Safemaster-Flatt.
Rev. and Mrs. Flatt served as AUG/LCA missionaries to Tanzania,
1949-1960.
Location: contact author.
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Flatt,
Donald. "Man of Four Worlds: A Story of Mission in Three
Continents." Donald C. Flatt, Missionary, Augustana Lutheran
Church, Tanzania. ELCA Archives, Chicago.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago
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Peterson,
Dean A. "Christian Theology in an African Context: Reflections
on an Encounter." 1984. 120 pp.
Rev. and Mrs. Peterson served as AUG/LCA/ELCA missionaries to
Tanzania, 1952-1989.
Location: contact author.
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