Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Volume 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-39546-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 390 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 795 g

Reihe: Critical Readings

This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. It apprises them with current discussions, insights and theories. 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.
The text-selection represents a wide variety of disciplines, authors and backgrounds. The texts were chosen because they address the complexities involved in studying the history of Christian mission. Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frederiks, Martha

Nagy, Dorottya

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 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

Über Autor(innen)

Martha Frederiks is Professor for the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a contributing editor of the series Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (Leiden: Brill), co-editor of Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity and with Lucien van Liere editor-in-chief of Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (Leiden: Brill).

Dorottya Nagy is Professor of Theology and Migration at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam (PThU), the Netherlands. Migration studies and awareness for responsible methodology lie at the heart of her academic interests. She is president of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS) and editor of its journal.

Together they published Religion, Migration, and Identity. Methodological and Theological Explorations (Leiden: Brill, 2017) and World Christianity. Methodological Considerations (Leiden: Brill, 2020).