Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions / edited by J. Scott, G. Griffiths.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scott, Jamie S.

Griffiths, Gareth, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--History.

Religion.

Religions.

Philosophy.

History of Religion.

Comparative Religion.

Local Subjects:

History of Religion.

Comparative Religion.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 268 p. 3 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Part One: Protestant Missions, Texts, and Contexts

1 Master Narratives of Imperial Missions

2 Inventing the World: Transnationalism, Transmission, and Christian Textualities

3 The Missionary Writing Machine in Nineteenth-Century KwaZulu-Natal

4 Popular Imperial Adventure Fiction and the Discourse of Missionary Texts

5 Books and Bodices: Material Culture and Protestant Missions in Colonial South India

6 Landscapes of Faith: British Missionary Tourism in the South Pacific

7 Penitential and Penitentiary: Native Canadians and Colonial Mission Education

Part Two: World Religions, Global Missions

8 Da'wa in the West: Islamic Mission in American Form

9 The Spread of Buddhism in the West: Missionary Work and the Pattern of Religious Diffusion

10 "In Every Town, Country and Village My Name Will be Sung": Hindu Missions in India and Abroad

11 Articles of Faith: International Relations and "Missionary" Scholarship

12 Afterword: Global Conversions

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.

ISBN:

9786611369071

9781281369079

1281369071

9781403982322

1403982325

OCLC:

560467218