Henry Callaway

Henry Callaway

Henry Callaway (born January 17, 1817 in Lymington (either Hampshire or Somerset ), † March 26, 1890 in Ottery Saint Mary ) was a British missionary of the Church of England and from 1873 to 1876 Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of St. John's , Kaffraria , in Cape Colony , Natal , South Africa , which belongs to the Church of the Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa ). His main work describes the religious system of the Amazulu ( Zulu ), an African ethnic group of the Bantu. Callaway was a leading authority on the Zulu religion.

Main work

• 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 (series: Publications of the Folk-Lore Society for collecting and printing Relics of popular Antiquities; 15)
• Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus (1868)

Works

In addition to his main works The Religious System of the Amazulu and Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus , Callaway also wrote:

• 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)

literature

• 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)

Web links

• Irving Hexham : Henry Callaway, Religion, and Rationalism in Nineteenth Century Mission History . In: Ulrick van der Heyden (ed.): Missionsgeschichte -Kirchengeschichte-Weltgeschichte (Mission-History-Church History-World History) . Franz Steinver Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 439-449
• 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, MD (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 , DD, Lord Bishop of Natal (1854)

Individual evidence

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