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Book SynopsisThis selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art. Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.
Table of ContentsVOLUME 1 Introduction Dorottya Nagy and Martha Frederiks Part 1: Methods 1 Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa Norman Etherington 2 Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission History Andrea Schultze 3 ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’: Missionaries, Converts, and Narration Gareth Griffiths 4 The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in (South) African Mission Historiography Tinyiko Sam Maluleke 5 Sources in Mission Archives Adam Jones 6 The Midwest China Oral History Collection Jane Baker Koons 7 From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East—A Journey Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database Project Terry Barringer 8 Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian Case Geoffrey A. Oddie 9 Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission Stanley H. Skreslet 10 Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540–1773 Steven J. Harris 11 The Global “Bookkeeping” of Souls: Quantification and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions Martin Petzke 12 The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission Field Hyaeweol Choi 13 On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern Discussion Paul Jenkins 14 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions An Introduction to Supplement 10 Joel Robbins 15 Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous Autonomy in Colonial California Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider 16 Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station, New Zealand Ian W. G. Smith 17 Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New Hebrides Jean Mitchell VOLUME 2 Part 2: Approaches 18 Eusebius Tries Again: Reconceiving the Study of Christian History Andrew F. Walls 19 From Missions to Mission to beyond Missions The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World War II Dana L. Robert 20 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C. G. A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies Anders Ahlbäck 21 The Colonization of Consciousness John and Jean Comaroff 22 Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global Modernity Ryan Dunch 23 The Culture Concept and the Mission of the Roman Catholic Church Michael V. Angrosino 24 The Problem of Colonialism in the Western Historiography of Christian Missions Jane Samson 25 Theology and Mission between Neocolonialism and Postcolonialism Joerg Rieger 26 Translating the Word: Dialogism and Debate in Two Gikuyu Dictionaries Derek Peterson 27 The Gospel, Language and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural Analysis Lamin Sanneh 28 Women and Cultural Exchanges Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock 29 Understanding the World-Christian Turn in the History of Christianity and Theology Paul Kollman 30 Transcontinental Links, Enlarged Maps, and Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity Klaus Koschorke 31 World Christianity as a Theological Approach: A Reflection on Central and Eastern Europe Dorottya Nagy VOLUME 3 Part 3: Themes I Mission and Language 32 Bunyan in Africa Text and Transition Isabel Hofmeyr 33 Translation Teams Missionaries, Islanders, and the Reduction of Language in the Pacific Jane Samson 34 Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea Bambi B. Schieffelin 35 Exploring Nineteenth-Century Haida Translations of the New Testament Marcus Tomalin Mission and Politics 36 Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions Joanna Cruickshank 37 British Missions and Indian Nationalism, 1880–1908: Imitation and Autonomy in Calcutta and Madras Chandra Mallampalli 38 Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial Hausaland: Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930s Shobana Shankar Mission and Social Change 39 Christian Mind and Worldly Matters Religion and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast Birgit Meyer 40 Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Postcolonial Democratic Development Tomila Lankina and Lullit Getachew 41 A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania Margaret Jolly Missionaries 42 Christian Missionaries as Anticolonial Militants Karen E. Fields 43 Saint Apolo from Europe, or ‘What’s in a Luganda Name?’ Emma Wild-Wood 44 ‘Culture’ as a Tool and an Obstacle: Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan Mathijs Pelkmans 45 ‘It’s Really Where Your Parents Were’: Differentiating and Situating Protestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c. 1900–1940 Hugh Morrison Mission, Women and Gender 46 ‘God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary’s Wife’: Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840s Valentine Cunningham 47 Female Emancipation in an Imperial Frame: English Women and the Campaign against Sati (Widow-Burning) in India, 1813–30 Clare Midgley 48 Married to the Mission Field: Gender, Christianity, and Professionalization in Britain and Colonial Africa, 1865–1914 Elizabeth Prevost VOLUME 4 Part 4: Themes II Mission, Education, and Science 49 From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850–1900 Modupe Labode 50 From Transformation to Negotiation: A Female Mission in a “City of Schools” Julia Hauser 51 Some Reflections on Anthropology’s Missionary Positions John W. Burton with Orsolya Arva Burton 52 Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany Patrick Harries Mission, Health, and Healing 53 The Medical Mission Strategy of the Maryknoll Sisters Suzanne R. Thurman 54 Converting the Hospital: British Missionaries and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar Thomas Anderson 55 Chinese Perspectives on Medical Missionaries in the 19th Century: The Chinese Medical Missionary Journal Gao Xi 56 Language, Medical Auxiliaries, and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga, Zambia, 1922–51 Walima T. Kalusa Mission and Other Faith Traditions 57 Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the Face of the Indigenous Religions of New Spain Sergio Botta 58 Some Hindu Perspectives on Christian Missionaries in the Indic World of the Mid Nineteenth Century Richard Fox Young 59 Methodists and Muslims in the Gambia Martha T. Frederiks 60 Evangelicalism, Islam, and Millennial Expectation in the Nineteenth Century Andrew Porter Mission and Art 61 Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–180 Cécile Fromont 62 The Indian Conquest of Catholic Art. The Mughals, the Jesuits, and Imperial Mural Painting Gauvin Alexander Bailey 63 The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India Gauvin Alexander Bailey 64 Africanising Christian Imagery in Southern African Missions Elizabeth Rankin Index of Names
