European missions in contact zones : : transformation through interaction in a (post-)colonial world / / edited by Judith Becker ; contributors, Judith Becker [and fourteen others].

• Superior document: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 107
• TeilnehmendeR: Becker, Judith,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; 107.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Notes: "With 12 images"--T.p. verso.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Body; Judith Becker: Introduction: European Missions in Contact Zones. Transformation Through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World; I. General ; Jeffrey Cox: Global Christianity in the Contact Zone; II. Contact Zones in Time and Space ; Mrinalini Sebastian: Localised Cosmopolitanism and Globalised Faith: Echoes of »Native« Voices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Missionary Documents; Judith Becker: Liberated by Christ: Evangelical Missionaries and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century South India

Andreas Nehring: Politics and Meditation: Christian Missions and Theravada Buddhist Reform in Nineteenth-Century BurmaKatharina Stornig: Cultural Conceptions of Purity and Pollution: Childbirth and Midwifery in a New Guinean Catholic Mission, 1896-c. 1930; Felicity Jensz: Reporting from the Religious Contact Zone: Missionaries and Anthropologists in Nineteenth-Century Australia; Stefan Rinke: A State Within a State? The »Jesuit State in Paraguay« and Eurocentric Constructions of Space ; III. Imagined Contact Zones

Sabine Hübner: To Sigh before God: Prayer in the Eighteenth-Century Lutheran Mission in Tamil NaduPeter James Yoder: »Temples in the Hearts of Heathens«: Post-Contact Developments in August Hermann Francke's Theological Language; Michael Sievernich: Comparing Ancient and Native Customs: Joseph-François Lafitau and the »sauvages amériquains«; IV. »Personalised« Contact Zones ; Thoralf Klein: How to be a Contact Zone: The Missionary Karl Gützlaff between Nationalism, Transnationalism and Transculturalism, 1827-1851

Rosemary Seton: Close Encounters, Racial Tensions: The Church of Scotland Mission in Calcutta [Kolkata], IndiaAndreas Köller: One's Own Concept Challenged: Renegotiations of the Concept of the »Missionary« in the Age of Decolonisation and Ecumenism; Heather J. Sharkey: The Case of Henry Athanassian, an Armenian in the Suez Canal Zone: Questioning Assumptions about Missions and Missionaries; Brian Stanley: Afterword: Conversations with Contact Zones; List of Contributors