Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : unto the ends of the world / / edited by Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, and Karina Hestad Skeie.

• Superior document: Studies in Christian mission ; v. 40
• TeilnehmendeR: Nielssen, Hilde.; Okkenhaug, Inger Marie.; Skeie, Karina Hestad.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Christian mission ; v. 40.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire “to the ends of the world”. Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain. Engaging in activities from education, health care and development aid to religion, ethnography and collection of material culture, Christian missionaries considered themselves as global actors working for the benefit of common humanity. Yet, the missionaries came from, and operated within a variety of nation-states. Thus this volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie -- Chapter One. Introduction / Hilde Nielssen , Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karina Hestad Skeie -- Chapter Two. James Sibree And Lars Dahle: Norwegian And British Missionary Ethnography As A Transnational And National Activity / Hilde Nielssen -- Chapter Three. The Many Purposes Of Missionary Work: Annie Royle Taylor As Missionary, Travel Writer, Collector And Empire Builder / Inbal Livne -- Chapter Four. The Missionary’s Progress. Evolving Images Of ‘Self’ And ‘Other’ In The Career Of Jakob Spieth (1856–1914) / Werner Ustorf -- Chapter Five. ‘Self’ And ‘Other’ As Biblical Representations In Mission Literature / Lisbeth Mikaelsson -- Chapter Six. Confessionalised Medicine. The Norwegian Missionary Society’s Leprosy Narratives From Madagascar 1887–1907 / Sigurd Sandmo -- Chapter Seven. On Difference, Sameness And Double Binds. Ambiguous Discourses, Failed Aspirations / Anne Folke Henningsen -- Chapter Eight. Mission Appropriation Or Appropriating The Mission? Negotiating Local And Global Christianity In Nineteenth And Twentieth Century Madagascar / Karina Hestad Skeie -- Chapter Nine. A “Good And Blessed Father” Yonan Of Ada On Justin Perkins, Urmia (Iran), 1870 / Heleen Murre-Van Den Berg -- Chapter Ten. Refugees, Relief And The Restoration Of A Nation: Norwegian Mission In The Armenian Republic, 1922–1925 / Inger Marie Okkenhaug -- Chapter Eleven. Mission By Other Means? Dora Earthy And The Save The Children Fund In The 1930's / Deborah Gaitskell -- Chapter Twelve. When Missions Became Development: Ironies Of ‘NGOization’ In Mainstream Canadian Churches In The 1960's / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- Chapter Thirteen. Re-Imagining ‘Metropole’ And ‘Periphery’ In Mission History / Michael Marten -- List Of Contributors / H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie -- Index / H. Nielssen , I. M. Okkenhaug and K. Hestad-Skeie.