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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 The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2021937176 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. isbn 978-90-04-39552-7 (hardback, set) isbn 978-90-04-39543-5 (hardback, vol. 1) isbn 978-90-04-39544-2 (hardback, vol. 2) isbn 978-90-04-39545-9 (hardback, vol. 3) isbn 978-90-04-39546-6 (hardback, vol. 4) isbn 978-90-04-39958-7 (e-book, vol. 1) isbn 978-90-04-39959-4 (e-book, vol. 2) isbn 978-90-04-39960-0 (e-book, vol. 3) isbn 978-90-04-39961-7 (e-book, vol. 4) Copyright 2021 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. 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This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. 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 vi Contents 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 viii Contents 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
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