Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries [electronic resource] : unto the ends of the world / edited by Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, and Karina Hestad Skeie.
Record details
- ISBN: 9789004207691 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9004207694 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 337 p.) : ill.
- Publisher: Leiden ; Brill, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 CatBulkString:jan.10.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Protestant churches > Missions > History > 20th century. Protestant churches > Missions > History > 19th century. Protestant churches > Missions. RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions. |
Genre: | Electronic books. History. |