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Cultural conversions : unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia / edited by Heather J. Sharkey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion and politics.
- Religion and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions--Middle East.
- Missions.
- Missions--Africa.
- Missions--South Asia.
- Christianity--Influence.
- Christianity.
- Christianity and culture.
- Christianity and politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The essays in this volume study cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries effected changes that often went beyond what they had intended, sometimes backfiring against the missions. These changes entailed wrenching political struggles to redefine families, communities, and lines of authority. This volume's contributors examine the meanings of "conversion" for individuals and communities in light of loyalties and cultural traditions, and consider how conversion, as a process, was often ambiguous. The history of Christian missions emerges from these pages as an integral part of world history that has stretched beyond professing Christians to affect the lives of peoples who have consciously rejected or remained largely unaware of missionary appeals.
- Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Cultural Conversions""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part One""; ""2 Conflicting Conversions and Unexpected Christianities in Central Africa""; ""3 Church versus Country""; ""4 Missionaries and Ethnography in the Service of Litigation""; ""Part Two""; ""5 Hybridity, Parody, and Contempt""; ""6 The Port Said Orphan Scandal of 1933""; ""7 Robert Moffat and the Invention of Christianity in South Africa""; ""Part Three""; ""8 Missionaries and the Making of Colonial Notables""
- ""9 The Scholar-Missionaries of the Basel Mission in Southwest India""""10 The Gospel in Arabic Tongues""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780815652205
- 0815652208
- OCLC:
- 880148042
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