Reporting Christian missions in the eighteenth century : communication, culture of knowledge and regular publication in a cross-confessional perspective /

Regular reporting on extra-European Christian missions was a distinctive feature of the early modern era, changing the worldviews of Europe and Europeans. The present collection of essays offers an innovative approach to this phenomenon by comparing different missionary publications from a cross-con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Friedrich, Markus (Editor ), Schunka, Alexander, 1972- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2017.
Colección:Jabloniana ; Bd. 8.
Temas:
1700-1799
Missions > History > 18th century.
Religious newspapers and periodicals > Europe > History > 18th century.
Publishers and publishing > Europe > History > 18th century.
Identification (Religion) > History > 18th century.
Missions > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Journaux et périodiques religieux > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Identification (Religion) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Identification (Religion)
Missions
Publishers and publishing
Religious newspapers and periodicals
Europe
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Markus Friedrich, Alexander Schunka
  • Missionary reports and their relevance as ethnographic sources / Iris Gareis
  • Between curiosity and edification: printing and editing the Nouveaux mémoires de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le Levant / Markus Friedrich
  • Apologetics, polemics, and knowledge in French Jesuit Culture: the collection of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses (1702-1776) / Adrien Paschoud
  • German circumnavigation of the globe: missionary writing, colonial identity formation, and the case of Joseph Stöcklein's Neuer Welt-Bott / Galaxis Borja González, Ulrike Strasser
  • Domestic(ating) expansion in the publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: translocal activism, national church reform, and global missionary operations before 1800 / Alexander Pyrges
  • Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: anniversary sermons and abstracts of proceedings / Jeremy Gregory
  • Controlled transparency: the Hallesche Berichte and Neue Hallesche Berichte between 1710 and 1848 / Heike Liebau
  • Global communication among the Moravian Brethren: the circulation of knowledge and its structures and logistics / Gisela Mettele
  • Representing Catholic and Protestant missions in German periodicals of the early eighteenth century / Alexander Schunka
  • Contributor biographies.

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