Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Unto the Ends of the World.
This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire "to the ends of t...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
Series:
Studies in Christian Mission
40.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.
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Call Number: BV2400 .P76 2011
| Summary: | This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire "to the ends of the world". Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain. Engaging in activities from education, health care and development aid to religion, ethnography and collection of material culture, Christian missionaries considered themselves as global actors working for the benefit of common humanity. Yet, the missionaries came from, and operated within a variety of nation-states. Thus this volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789004207691 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |