Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : unto the ends of the world / edited by Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, and Karina Hestad Skeie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nielssen, Hilde.

Okkenhaug, Inger Marie.

Skeie, Karina Hestad.

Series:

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 40.

Studies in Christian mission ; v. 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestant churches--Missions--History--19th century.

Protestant churches.

Protestant churches--Missions--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

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 1930's / Deborah Gaitskell

Chapter Twelve. When Missions Became Development: Ironies Of ‘NGOization’ In Mainstream Canadian Churches In The 1960's / 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.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-16147-8

9786613161475

90-04-20769-4

OCLC:

743693799