Europe as the other : : external perspectives on European Christianity / / edited by Judith Becker and Brian Stanley.

• Superior document: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz. Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte Abteilung für Universalgeschichte ; Supplement 103
• TeilnehmendeR: Becker, Judith.; Stanley, Brian.; Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany),
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Bd. 103.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

There has been much academic debate over recent years on Europe defining itself over against the »Other.« This volume asks from the opposite perspective: What views did non-Europeans hold of »European Christianity«? In this way, the volume turns the agency of definition over to non-Europeans. Over the last centuries, the contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans have been diverse and complex. Non-Europeans encountered Europeans as colonialists, traders, missionaries and travellers. Most of those Europeans were Christians or were perceived as Christians. Therefore, in terms of religion Europ

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Judith Becker and Brian Stanley: Introduction. Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity; Judith Becker: What was European about Christianity? Early Nineteenth-Century Missionaries' Perceptions; Werner Ustorf: Disentangling the Christian and the European (1890s to the 1930s). Five Voices from the Margin; Sebastian C. H. Kim: Pyŏngin pakhae and Western Imperial Aggression in Korea. Changing Perception of Western Christianity in the Late Chosŏn Dynasty

R. G. Tiedemann: Changing Chinese Perspectives on Western Christianity During the Transition from Culturalism to NationalismThoralf Klein: The Missionary as Devil. Anti-Missionary Demonology in China, 1860-1930; Jeffrey Cox: Sing Unto the Lord a New Song. Transcending the Western/Indigenous Binary in Punjabi Christian Hymnody; David Killingray: Godly Examples and Christian Agents. Training African Missionary Workers in British Institutions in the Nineteenth Century

Kokou Azamede: Reactions of African Converts to Christianity, Particularly of Those Who Visited Europe. The Case of the North German Mission's Assistants in West AfricaMartha Th. Frederiks: Ottobah Cugoano, Son of Africa. An Angry African Abolitionist Voice; Andrew F. Walls: Distinguished Visitors. Tiyo Soga and Behari Lal Singh in Europe and at Home; Bibliography; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Back Cover