Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Unto the Ends of the World.

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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Main Author: Nielssen, H.

Other Authors: Nielssen, Hilde., Okkenhaug, Inger Marie., Skeie, Karina Hestad.

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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Protestant churches > Missions > History > 19th century.
Protestant churches > Missions > History > 20th century.

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Call Number: BV2400 .P76 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie
  • Chapter One. Introduction /
  • Hilde Nielssen , Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karina Hestad Skeie
  • Chapter Two. James Sibree And Lars Dahle: Norwegian And British Missionary Ethnography As A Transnational And National Activity /
  • Hilde Nielssen
  • Chapter Three. The Many Purposes Of Missionary Work: Annie Royle Taylor As Missionary, Travel Writer, Collector And Empire Builder /
  • Inbal Livne
  • Chapter Four. The Missionary's Progress. Evolving Images Of 'Self' And 'Other' In The Career Of Jakob Spieth (1856-1914) /
  • Werner Ustorf
  • Chapter Five. 'Self' And 'Other' As Biblical Representations In Mission Literature /
  • Lisbeth Mikaelsson
  • Chapter Six. Confessionalised Medicine. The Norwegian Missionary Society's Leprosy Narratives From Madagascar 1887-1907 /
  • Sigurd Sandmo
  • Chapter Seven. On Difference, Sameness And Double Binds. Ambiguous Discourses, Failed Aspirations /
  • Anne Folke Henningsen
  • Chapter Eight. Mission Appropriation Or Appropriating The Mission? Negotiating Local And Global Christianity In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Madagascar /
  • Karina Hestad Skeie
  • Chapter Nine. A "Good And Blessed Father" Yonan Of Ada On Justin Perkins, Urmia (Iran), 1870 /
  • Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg
  • Chapter Ten. Refugees, Relief And The Restoration Of A Nation: Norwegian Mission In The Armenian Republic, 1922-1925 /
  • Inger Marie Okkenhaug
  • Chapter Eleven. Mission By Other Means? Dora Earthy And The Save The Children Fund In The 1930s /
  • Deborah Gaitskell
  • Chapter Twelve. When Missions Became Development: Ironies Of 'NGOization' In Mainstream Canadian Churches In The 1960s /
  • Ruth Compton Brouwer
  • Chapter Thirteen. Re-Imagining 'Metropole' And 'Periphery' In Mission History /
  • Michael Marten
  • List Of Contributors /
  • H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie
  • Index /
  • H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie.