Studies in the History of Christian Missions – serie
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14 produkter
Converting Colonialism
Vision and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914
Av Dana L, Robert, Dana L. Robert
Häftad, 2007
525 kr
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Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM) In this volume, leading historians of Christianity in the non-Western world examine the relationship between missionaries and nineteenth-century European colonialism, and between indigenous converts and the colonial contexts in which they …
Missions, Nationalism and the End of Empire
Av Brian Stanley, Alaine M. Low m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
507 kr
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Christian missions have often been seen as the religious arm of Western imperialism. What is rarely appreciated is the role they played in bringing about an end to the Western colonial empires after the Second World War. Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire explores this neglected subject. …
The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2007
514 kr
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Making up approximately 20 percent of South India's Protestants, Pentecostals are an influential part of India's Christian culture, yet there is a distinct lack of scholarly focus on this increasingly large group. This careful, well-informed study by Michael Bergunder ably fills that gap. After a …
China's Millions
The China Inland Mission and Late Qing Society, 1832-1905
Häftad, 2006
614 kr
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Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM) In China's Millions veteran historian Alvyn Austin presents a compelling historical narrative of the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) -- the first history of the CIM by an outsider -- including 36 …
Opening China
Karl F. A. Gutzlaff and Sino-Western Relations, 1827-1852
Häftad, 2008
557 kr
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Western evangelists have long been fascinated by China, a vast mission field with a unique language and culture. One of the most intrigued was also one of the most intriguing: Karl F. A. Gützlaff (1803–1851). In this erudite study Jessie Gregory Lutz chronicles Gützlaff's life from his youth in …
Interpreting Contemporary Christianity
Global Processes and Local Identities
Av Ogbu Uke, Kalu, Ogbu U. Kalu m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
525 kr
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In this multidisciplinary interpretation of world Christianity and the changing shape of the global religious landscape, scholars consider the complex dynamics shaping Christianity's recent expansion in all parts of the globe. They view the explanations of homogenization or American cultural …
Christian Identity and Dalit Religion in Hindu India, 1868-1947
Häftad, 2008
525 kr
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Series: Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM) When a form of Christianity from one corner of the world encounters the religion and culture of another, new and distinctive forms of the faith result. In this volume Chad Bauman considers one such cultural context -- colonial Chhattisgarh …
World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
Häftad, 2009
525 kr
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The World Missionary Conference in 1910 was a defining event in the history of world missions. Brian Stanley here presents his careful research revealing the compelling story of this turbulent, influential gathering in Edinburgh. This book is both an account of the conference itself and an …
Light on Darkness?
Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Häftad, 2012
436 kr
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In its earliest days, photography was seen as depicting its subjects with such objectivity as to be inherently free of ideological bias. Today we are rightly more skeptical -- at least most of the time. When it comes to photography from the past, we tend to set some of our skepticism aside. But …
British Missionaries and the End of Empire
East, Central, and Southern Africa, 1939-64
Av John Stuart
Häftad, 2011
489 kr
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There are many histories of overseas mission and many histories of the last days of Great Britain's empire in Africa, but there has been no book-length study on the relationship between them - until now. In British Missionaries and the End of Empire, historian John Stuart thoroughly and critically …
The Spiritual in the Secular
Missionaries and Knowledge About Africa
Av Patrick, Harries, David Maxwell m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
525 kr
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David Livingstone's visit to Cambridge in 1857 was seen as much as a scientific event as a religious one. But he was by no means alone among missionaries in integrating mission with science and other fields of research. Rather, many missionaries were remarkable, pioneering polymaths. This …
Conversion of the Maori
Years of Religious and Social Change, 1814-1842
Häftad, 2013
392 kr
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Mighty England Do Good
Culture, Faith, Empire, and World in the Foreign Missions of the Church of England, 1850-1915
Häftad, 2014
525 kr
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In late Victorian and Edwardian England, says Steven Maughan, foreign missions had a broad resonance and significance not adequately explored by historians of English culture. Mighty England Do Good fills that lacuna by examining the rapid growth of foreign missions in the Church of England between …
Christians in South Indian Villages, 1959-2009
Decline and Revival in Telangana
Av John Braisted Carman, Chilkuri Vasantha Rao
Häftad, 2014
442 kr
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A discerning study of a slice of modern Indian Christianity and Christian-Hindu encounter This book revisits South Indian Christian communities that were studied in 1959 and written about in Village Christians and Hindu Culture (1968). In 1959 the future of these village congregations was …
