Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : unto the ends of the world
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : unto the ends of the world
（Studies in Christian mission, v. 40）
Brill, 2011
Available at / 4 libraries
-
No Libraries matched.
- Remove all filters.
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
Contributors include: Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Karina Hestad Skeie, Inbal Livne, Werner Ustorf, Lisbeth Mikaelsson, Sigurd Sandmo, Anne Folke Henningsen, Heleen Murre van den Berg, Deborah Gaitskell, Ruth Compton Brouwer, Michael Marten
by "Nielsen BookData"