European missions in contact zones : transformation through interaction in a (post-)colonial world / edited by Judith Becker.
Contributor(s): Becker, Judith [editor.]
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TextSeries: Vero¿ffentlichungen des Instituts fu¿r Europa¿ische Geschichte MainzBeiheft: 107.; V & R academic: Publisher: Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 293 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783525101414; 3525101414Subject(s): Missions, European -- Congresses | Christianity -- Europe -- Congresses | Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses | Christianity and culture -- Congresses | Postcolonialism -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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"This volume is based on the concluding conference of the junior research group 'Transfer and transformation of Missionaries' Images of Europe in Contact with the Other, 1700-1970' which was held in Mainz in April 2014"--Page 23.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: European missions in contact zones: transformation through interaction in a (post-)colonial world / Judith Becker -- Global Christianity in the contact zone / Jeffrey Cox -- Localised cosmopolitanism and globalised faith: echoes of "native" voices in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century missionary documents / Mrinalini Sebastian -- Liberated by Christ: evangelical missionaries and slavery in nineteenth-century South India / Judith Becker -- Politics and meditation: Christian missions and Theravada Buddhist reform in nineteenth-century Burma / Andreas Nehring -- Cultural conceptions of purity and pollution: childbirth and midwifery in a New Guinean Catholic mission, 1896-c.1930 / Katharina Stornig -- Reporting from the religious contact zone: missionaries and anthropologists in nineteenth-century Australia / Felicity Jensz -- A state within a state? The "Jesuit state in Paraguay" and Eurocentric constructions of space / Stefan Rinke -- To sigh before God: prayer in the eighteenth century Lutheran mission in Tamil Nadu / Sabine Hübner -- "Temples in the hearts of heathens": post-contact developments in August Hermann Francke's theological language / Peter James Yoder -- Comparing ancient and native customs: Joseph-François Lafitau and the "sauvages amériquains" / Michael Sievernich -- How to be a contact zone: the missionary Karl Gützlaff between nationalism, transnationalism and transculturalism, 1827-1851 / Thoralf Klein -- Close encounters, racial tensions: the Church of Scotland mission in Calcutta [Kolkata], India / Rosemary Seton -- One's own concept challenged: renegotiations of the concept of the "missionary" in the age of decolonisation and ecumenism / Andreas Köller -- The case of Henry Athanassian, an Armenian in the Suez Canal zone: questioning assumptions about missions and missionaries / Heather J. Sharkey -- Afterword: Conversations with contact zones / Brian Stanley.