Henry Callaway

Henry Callaway (* 17. Januar 1817 in Lymington (entweder Hampshire oder Somerset); † 26. März 1890 in Ottery Saint Mary) war ein britischer Missionar der Church of England und von 1873 bis 1876 Bischof der Anglikanischen Diözese St. John’s, Kaffraria, in der Kapkolonie, Natal, Südafrika, die zur Church of the Province of Southern Africa (heute Anglican Church of Southern Africa gehört). Sein Hauptwerk beschreibt das religiöse System der Amazulu (Zulu), eine afrikanische Volksgruppe der Bantu. Callaway war eine der führenden Autoritäten zur Religion der 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)
• Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus (1868)

Werke

Neben seinen Hauptwerken The Religious System of the Amazulu und Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of 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)
• David Chidester: Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology. Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway's The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–79). In: Frederico Delgado Rosa / Han F. Vermeulen (Hrsg.): Ethnographers before Malinowski, pioneers of anthropological fieldwork, 1870–1922. Berghahn, New York, Oxford 2022, ISBN 978-1-80073-531-6, S. 153–184.

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)