Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

385 Pages·2021·6.09 MB·English

by  Martha Frederiks, Dorottya Nagy

Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission
Volume 1

Critical Readings in
the History of
Christian Mission
volume 1
Edited by
Martha Frederiks
Dorottya Nagy
LEIDEN | BOSTON
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Contents
VOLUME 1
Introduction 1
Dorottya Nagy and Martha Frederiks
Methods
1 Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern
Africa 39
Norman Etherington
2 Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission
History 67
Andrea Schultze
3 ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’: Missionaries, Converts, and Narration 76
Gareth Griffiths
4 The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in
(South) African Mission Historiography 95
Tinyiko Sam Maluleke
5 Sources in Mission Archives 116
Adam Jones
6 The Midwest China Oral History Collection 127
Jane Baker Koons
7 From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East—A Journey
Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database
Project 134
Terry Barringer
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8 Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian Case 145
Geoffrey A. Oddie
9 Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission 159
Stanley H. Skreslet
10 Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540–1773 174
Steven J. Harris
11 The Global ‘Bookkeeping’ of Souls: Quantification and
Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions 186
Martin Petzke
12 The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission Field 222
Hyaeweol Choi
13 On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern
Discussion 255
Paul Jenkins
14 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions.
An Introduction to Supplement 10 270
Joel Robbins
15 Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous
Autonomy in Colonial California 302
Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider
16 Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station,
New Zealand 330
Ian W. G. Smith
17 Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of
Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New Hebrides 352
Jean Mitchell
Contents vii
VOLUME 2
Approaches
18 Eusebius Tries Again: Reconceiving the Study of Christian History 375
Andrew F. Walls
19 From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography
of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II 388
Dana L. Robert
20 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C. G. A. Oldendorp’s
Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies 421
Anders Ahlbäck
21 The Colonization of Consciousness 447
John and Jean Comaroff
22 Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions,
and Global Modernity 469
Ryan Dunch
23 The Culture Concept and the Mission of the Roman Catholic
Church 499
Michael V. Angrosino
24 The Problem of Colonialism in the Western Historiography of Christian
Missions 511
Jane Samson
25 Theology and Mission between Neocolonialism and
Postcolonialism 531
Joerg Rieger
26 Translating the Word: Dialogism and Debate in Two Gikuyu
Dictionaries 555
Derek Peterson
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27 The Gospel, Language and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural
Analysis 579
Lamin Sanneh
28 Women and Cultural Exchanges 600
Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock
29 Understanding the World-Christian Turn in the History of Christianity
and Theology 620
Paul Kollman
30 Transcontinental Links, Enlarged Maps, and Polycentric Structures in
the History of World Christianity 635
Klaus Koschorke
31 World Christianity as a Theological Approach: A Reflection on Central
and Eastern Europe 665
Dorottya Nagy
VOLUME 3
Themes I
Mission and Language
32 Bunyan in Africa: Text and Transition 689
Isabel Hofmeyr
33 Translation Teams: Missionaries, Islanders, and the Reduction
of Language in the Pacific 704
Jane Samson
34 Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi,
Papua New Guinea 722
Bambi B. Schieffelin
35 Exploring Nineteenth-Century Haida Translations of the
New Testament 749
Marcus Tomalin
Contents ix
Mission and Politics
36 Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions 787
Joanna Cruickshank
37 British Missions and Indian Nationalism, 1880–1908: Imitation and
Autonomy in Calcutta and Madras 804
Chandra Mallampalli
38 Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial Hausaland:
Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930s 828
Shobana Shankar
Mission and Social Change
39 Christian Mind and Worldly Matters: Religion and Materiality in
Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast 859
Birgit Meyer
40 Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in
Postcolonial Democratic Development 887
Tomila Lankina and Lullit Getachew
41 A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania 922
Margaret Jolly
Missionaries
42 Christian Missionaries as Anticolonial Militants 951
Karen E. Fields
43 Saint Apolo from Europe, or ‘What’s in a Luganda Name?’ 966
Emma Wild-Wood
44 ‘Culture’ as a Tool and an Obstacle: Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet
Kyrgyzstan 990
Mathijs Pelkmans