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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.
Contents
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
