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This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.
Die Untersuchung fragt erstmalig systematisch danach, wie und unter welchen Umst�nden das Bild des schwarzen Fremden innerhalb der politischen Kolonialdiskussion in Deutschland konstruiert wurde. Durch die Analyse der �u�erst facettenreichen parlamentarischen und publizistischen Diskussion wird ein umfassendes koloniales Weltbild herausgesch�lt. "Dem Autor gelingt es eindrucksvoll, die koloniale Erfahrung an die deutsche Geschichte zurueckzubinden �" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Schubert hat mit Umsicht die umfangreiche koloniale Publizistik und die parlamentarische Diskussion des Kaiserreichs fuer seine Thematik erschlossen. [�] ein anspruchsvolles, sorgf�ltig recherchierte...
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
English summary: During the 19th century, the missionary endeavors of the churches - Protestant as well as Roman-Catholic and the Free Churches - were among the most important exponents of cultural exchange, building up self-image and public image within contact zone between Christianity and the religions of the "heathen" world. This study analyzes the stereotypical and theological-anthropological perceptions of "humanity" in the publication of the Basel Mission and puts them in context with the philosophical and theological discourse of their time. German text. German description: Im 19. Jahrhundert gehorten die Missionswerke der verschiedenen protestantischen Kirchen und Freikirchen sowie ...
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