Author: Ingie Hovland
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004257403
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880s, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850s.
Mission Station Christianity
Author: Ingie Hovland
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004257403
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880s, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850s.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004257403
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Mission Station Christianity, Ingie Hovland presents an anthropological history of the ideas and practices that evolved among Norwegian missionaries in nineteenth-century colonial Natal and Zululand (Southern Africa). She examines how their mission station spaces influenced their daily Christianity, and vice versa, drawing on the anthropology of Christianity. Words and objects, missionary bodies, problematic converts, and the utopian imagination are discussed, as well as how the Zulus made use of (and ignored) the stations. The majority of the Norwegian missionaries had become theological cheerleaders of British colonialism by the 1880s, and Ingie Hovland argues that this was made possible by the everyday patterns of Christianity they had set up and become familiar with on the mission stations since the 1850s.
History of Christian Missions
Author: Charles Henry Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Borrowed Place
Author: Riika-Leena Juntunen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004302948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004302948
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
In Borrowed Place: Mission Stations and Local Adaption in Early Twentieth-Century Hunan Riika-Leena Juntunen creates a microhistorical narrative around the establishment, reception, and development of Lizhou protestant stations during the turbulent years of popular nationalism and early communist activity. The book examines the changing place identity around the stations from political, religious, ritual, cultural, and gendered perspectives, revealing a Chinese semi-religious community with varying motivations and in constant dialogue with its surroundings. The group developed its own normative code and hierarchy, and it offered both economic and religious benefits according to local models. Yet the developing political situation also meant it had to solve the question of anti-foreignism to be able to continue its existence.
Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Author: Hilde Nielssen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004207694
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004207694
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
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.
The Church Missionary Atlas
Author: Church Missionary Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecclesiastical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecclesiastical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Jiangyin Mission Station
Author: Lawrence D. Kessler
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the Chinese not because of the religious message it spread but because of the secular benefits it provided. Like other missions, the Jiangyin Station, which was sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, North Carolina, combined evangelism with social welfare programs and enjoyed a respected position within the local community. By 1930, the station supported a hospital and several schools and engaged in anti-opium campaigns and local peacekeeping efforts. In many ways, however, Christianity was a disruptive force in Chinese society, and Kessler examines Chinese ambivalence toward the mission movement, the relationship between missions and imperialism, and Westerners' response to Chinese nationalism. He also addresses the Jiangyin Station's close ties to, and impact upon, its supporting church in Wilmington.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469647710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Lawrence Kessler uses the Jiangyin mission station in the Shanghai region of China to explore Chinese-American cultural interaction in the first half of the twentieth century. He concludes that the Protestant missionary movement was welcomed by the Chinese not because of the religious message it spread but because of the secular benefits it provided. Like other missions, the Jiangyin Station, which was sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Wilmington, North Carolina, combined evangelism with social welfare programs and enjoyed a respected position within the local community. By 1930, the station supported a hospital and several schools and engaged in anti-opium campaigns and local peacekeeping efforts. In many ways, however, Christianity was a disruptive force in Chinese society, and Kessler examines Chinese ambivalence toward the mission movement, the relationship between missions and imperialism, and Westerners' response to Chinese nationalism. He also addresses the Jiangyin Station's close ties to, and impact upon, its supporting church in Wilmington.
Historical Sketches of the Missions Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church
Author: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Around the World Tour of Christian Missions
Author: William Folwell Bainbridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Missions
Author: Edwin Munsell Bliss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
God's Interpreters: The Making of an American Mission and an African Church
Author: Les Switzer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004541020
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This book offers an alternative reading of the relationship between an American mission and an African church in colonial South Africa. The author argues that mission and church were partners in this relationship from the beginning and both were transformed by this experience.