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Mixed messages : materiality, textuality, missions /
This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity and also, more uniquely, incidences of proselytizing in religions such as Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. The collection is interdisciplinary,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Master Narratives of Imperial Missions / J.L. Cox
- Inventing the World: Transnationalism, Transmission and Christian Textualities / I. Hofmeyr
- The Missionary Writing Machine In Nineteenth-Century Kwazulu-Natal / N. Etherington
- Mixed Messages: Imperial Adventures and Missionary Tales / G. Griffiths
- Books and Bodices: Material Culture and Protestant Missions in Colonial South India / E.F. Kent
- Landscapes of Faith: British Missionary Tourism in the South Pacific / J. Samson
- Penitential and Penitentiary: Native Canadians and Colonial Mission Education / J.S. Scott
- Da 'Wa in the West: Islamic Mission in American Form / J.I. Smith
- The Spread of Budhism in the West: Missionary Work and the Pattern of Religious Diffusion / J.W. Coleman
- 'In Every Town, Country and Village My Name Will Be Sung': Hindu Missions in India and Abroad / K.K. Klostermaier
- Articles of Faith: nternational Relations and 'Missionary' Scholarship / J.M. Beier
- Afterword: Global Conversions / P.van der Veer.