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Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism
Representative Ministry in Church History from the Age of Ignatius of Antioch to the Reformation. With Special Reference to Contemporary Ecumenism
Inbunden, 1992
2479 kr
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Bishops are to be understood primarily as representatives of cultures regardless of where their people are territorially located. The vindication of this thesis has implications also for ecumenical reconciliation between episcopal and non-episcopal communions occupying the same geographical …
Peaks of Faith
Protestant Mission in Revolutionary China
Inbunden, 1993
1957 kr
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This is a pioneering study of the impact of Christianization among the Chinese. Focusing primarily on the minority peoples of Yunnan province, it nonetheless fully mirrors the historical development of the Protestant mission in China.Drawing on many years of observation in the field and upon a …
International Influences and Baptist Mission in West Cameroon
German-American Missionary Endeavor under International Mandate and British Colonialism
Inbunden, 1993
1957 kr
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This study presents a history, based on original archival and primary source material, of the Baptist mission educational situation of Cameroon province from 1922 to 1945. The provisions of the League of Nations' mandate, under which Great Britain administered the province in this period, included …
Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti
Les Picpuciens en Polynésie au XIXe siècle
Inbunden, 1995
3000 kr
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Missionnaires au quotidien à Tahiti immerses us in the everyday life of Catholic missionaries sent out to the Tahitian islands in the period 1834 to 1914. Using the correspondence of the 167 members of the order of the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary, an attempt is made to define …
Christianity in Northern Malaŵi
Donald Fraser's Missionary Methods and Ngoni Culture
Inbunden, 1995
2479 kr
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Christianity in Northern Malawi deals with the interaction of the missionary methods of the Scottish missionary Donald Fraser and the traditional culture of the Ngoni people of northern Malawi in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.It looks at Ngoni origins and culture prior to first contacts …
Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa
A Documentary Account of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and the Human Rights Struggle in the Congo, 1890-1918
Av Robert Benedetto, Winifred K. Vass
Inbunden, 1996
3495 kr
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This volume contains 123 documents which illustrate the early history of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and its struggle for human rights in the Congo from 1890-1918. The documents, many of which have never previously been published, are crucial to a full understanding of both the work of …
Crosscurrents in Indigenous Spirituality
Interface of Maya, Catholic and Protestant Worldviews
Av Edward Cook
Inbunden, 1997
3000 kr
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The resurgence of indigenous cultures and the reappearance of their ancient spiritualities, during the 1990s, is of great interest to social scientists. Several such cultures are featured in this book.The indigenous populations of struggling multi-ethnic "democracies" in Latin America are demanding …
Pastors, Partners and Paternalists
African Church Leaders and Western Missionaries in the Anglican Church in Kenya, 1850-1900
Av Colin Reed
Inbunden, 1997
2287 kr
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A study tracing the relationships between missionaries and African Church workers in Kenya in the years 1850-1900, as missionaries increasingly adopted imperial assumptions of Western superiority.It tells the story of the first Anglican clergy in Kenya, their wives and colleagues; their rescue from …
Missionary Lives
A Study in Canadian Missionary Biography and Autobiography
Inbunden, 1997
2033 kr
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This book is a survey of the life writings by and about Canadian missionaries at home and abroad, over the last one hundred and thirty years. A general missionary history of Canada appears first, to introduce separate chapters on the forms and themes of this body of literature. The critical …
Christianity and Imperial Culture
Chinese Christian Apologetics in the Seventeenth Century and their Latin Patristic Equivalent
Inbunden, 1998
2425 kr
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This book is a study of the writings of a group of Chinese Christian apologists in the seventeenth century, focussing on Xu Guangqi. Eleven of his shorter writings are included in Chinese and in translation.The first part of the book is devoted to a study of Latin Christian apologists within the …
Dominican Friars in Southern Africa
A Social History (1577-1990)
Inbunden, 1998
2935 kr
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The purpose of this book is to gather in a single narrative the rather disparate stories of Dominican friars in Southern Africa over the past four centuries. Dominicans from Portugal and Portuguese India were present in South-East Africa from 1577 to 1835. Patrick Raymond Griffith, an Irish …
In Search of Foundations for African Catholicism
Charles Nyamiti's Theological Methodology
Inbunden, 1999
3000 kr
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This study deals with the interaction between neo-Thomism and African traditional thinking in Charles Nyamiti's theological methodology. The approach of the study is groundbreaking as it is the first monograph published on the theological method of any African theologian. The question about the …
Studies in Asian Mission History, 1956-1998
Av Arnulf Camps
Inbunden, 2000
2935 kr
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In this volume the miscellaneous writings of Arnulf Camps are published. They deal with the activities of Catholic missionaries during the last five centuries in nine countries situated between Turkey and Japan. This research focussed on the discovery of hidden, unknown or forgotten sources. New …
No North Sea
The Anglo-German Evangelical Network in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 1999
2479 kr
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This volume deals with those Christians who helped construct an international and inter-denominational evangelical network in western Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Evangelical Alliance (est. 1846) institutionalised this ecumenical impulse. The Berlin Conference (1857) was the …
Modern Assyrians of the Middle East
Encounters with Western Christian missions, archaeologists, and colonial power
Av John Joseph
Inbunden, 2000
2479 kr
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This is a revised edition of the author's The Nestorians and Their Muslim Neighbors (Princeton University Press, 1961). Early in the nineteenth century, the Aramaic-speaking "Nestorian" Christians received special attention when American Protestant missions decided to educate and reform them to …
Quality of Heroic Living, of High Endeavour and Adventure
Anglican Mission, Women and Education in Palestine, 1888-1948
Inbunden, 2002
3000 kr
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This work focuses on Anglican mission and women's education in Palestine in the period from 1888 till 1948. As part of the "enlightenment movement" the project was initiated by British women educational pioneers, who influenced women to carry out the creed of academic training for girls also in …
Christianity in Modern China
The Making of the First Native Protestant Church
Av David Cheung
Inbunden, 2003
3495 kr
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Using mainly hitherto unstudied primary materials, this monograph studies a very significant episode in Chinese Christianity. Focusing on the origins and earliest history of Protestantism in South Fujian, this analytical-critical study investigates the evolution of the churches which pioneered in …
'Incidental' Ethnographers
French Catholic Missions on the Tonkin-Yunnan Frontier, 1880-1930
Av Jean Michaud
Inbunden, 2007
2610 kr
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This book, connecting the fields of social anthropology and missiology, presents a body of colonial ethnographic writing applied to highland societies in the southern portion of the Mainland Southeast Asian massif. The writers under scrutiny are Catholic priests from the Société des Missions …
Christian Remnant - African Folk Church
Seventh-Day Adventism in Tanzania, 1903-1980
Inbunden, 2007
3613 kr
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The growth of Christianity in Africa during the twentieth century is one of the most fascinating shifts in the history of religions. This book presents a history of the Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist Church, which is representative of this shift in many respects: slow beginnings, struggles over …
Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870
Inbunden, 2017
4069 kr
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Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book AwardIn The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870, Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia …
History of Christianity in Indonesia
Av Karel Steenbrink, Jan S. Aritonang
Inbunden, 2008
4616 kr
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Indonesia is the home of the largest single Muslim community of the world. Its Christian community, about 10% of the population, has until now received no overall description in English. Through cooperation of 26 Indonesian and European scholars, Protestants and Catholics, a broad and balanced …
Making of Manhood among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, c.1890-c.1914
Inbunden, 2009
2309 kr
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Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a …
German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848-1908
Influential Strangers
Inbunden, 2010
2349 kr
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Focusing on the six decades that German Moravian missionaries worked in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, this book enriches understanding of colonial politics and the role of the non-British other in manipulating practice and policy in foreign realms. Central to the transnational nature …
Encounters in Quest of Christian Womanhood
The Basel Mission in Pre- and Early Colonial Ghana
Av Ulrike Sill
Inbunden, 2010
3183 kr
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Christianity has come to be a religion embraced especially by women and not least in Africa. This book provides one of the as yet rare case studies for the early stages of this development: how African women on the pre- and early colonial Gold Coast (Ghana) encountered Basel Mission Christianity, …
Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Unto the Ends of the World
Av Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2596 kr
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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 …
Building God’s Kingdom
Norwegian Missionaries in Highland Madagascar 1866 - 1903
Inbunden, 2012
2635 kr
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Building God’s Kingdom studies how the encounter with nineteenth century Madagascar influenced the Norwegian Protestant mission. Drawing upon rich Norwegian and Malagasy sources, entangled and multivocal stories are allowed to unfold, revealing the complex dynamics of mission encounters. Tracing …
Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747)
Inbunden, 2013
2635 kr
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In The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747), John M. Flannery describes the establishment and activities of the Portuguese Augustinian mission in Persia. Hopes of converting the Safavid ruler of the Shi’a Muslim state would come to naught, as would the attempts of …
Mission Station Christianity
Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890
Inbunden, 2013
2336 kr
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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 …
Sinicizing Christianity
Inbunden, 2017
2309 kr
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Chinese people have been instrumental in indigenizing Christianity. Sinizing Christianity examines Christianity's transplantation to and transformation in China by focusing on three key elements: Chinese agents of introduction; Chinese redefinition of Christianity for the local context; and Chinese …
China's Christianity
From Missionary to Indigenous Church
Inbunden, 2017
2309 kr
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Among the assumptions interrogated in this volume, edited by Anthony E. Clark, is if Christianity should most accurately be identified as “Chinese” when it displays vestiges of Chinese cultural aesthetics, or whether Chinese Christianity is more indigenous when it is allowed to form its own …
