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Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : unto the ends of the world /
This book makes visible an important but neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. Missionaries considered themselves global actors, yet they operated within a variety of nation-states. The volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in Christian mission ;
v. 40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- James Sibree and Lars Dahle : Norwegian and British missionary ethnography as a transnational and national activity / Hilde Nielssen
- The many purposes of missionary work : Annie Royle Taylor as missionary, travel writer, collector and empire builder / Inbal Livne
- The missionary's progress : evolving images of "self" and "other" in the career of Jakob Spieth (1856-1914) / Werner Ustorf
- "Self" and "other" as biblical representations in mission literature / Lisbeth Mikaelsson
- Confessionalised medicine : the Norwegian Missionary Society's leprosy narratives from Madagascar 1887-1907 / Sigurd Sandmo
- On difference, sameness and double binds : ambiguous discourses, failed aspirations / Anne Folke Henningsen
- Mission appropriation or appropriating the mission? : negotiating local and global Christianity in nineteenth and twentieth century Madagascar / Karina Hestad Skeie
- A "good and blessed father" : Yonan of Ada on Justin Perkins, Urmia (Iran), 1870 / Heleen Murre-van den Berg
- Refugees, relief and the restoration of a nation : Norwegian mission in the Armenian republic, 1922-1925 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug
- Mission by other means? : Dora Earthy and the Save the Children Fund in the 1930s / Deborah Gaitskell
- When missions became development : ironies of "NGOisation" in mainstream Canadian churches in the 1960s / Ruth Compton Brouwer
- Re-imagining "metropole" and "periphery" in mission history / Michael Marten.