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 wo...

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.