European missions in contact zones : : transformation through interaction in a (post-)colonial world / / edited by Judith Becker ; contributors, Judith Becker [and fourteen others].
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| Superior document: | Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, 107 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen, [Germany] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Notes: | "With 12 images"--T.p. verso. |
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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