Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

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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. Contents Part 4: Themes II Mission, Education, and Science 49 From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850–1900 • Modupe Labode 50 From Transformation to Negotiation: A Female Mission in a ‘City of Schools’ • Julia Hauser 51 Some Reflections on Anthropology’s Missionary Positions • John W. Burton with Orsolya Arva Burton 52 Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany • Patrick Harries Mission, Health, and Healing 53 The Medical Mission Strategy of the Maryknoll Sisters • Suzanne R. Thurman 54 Converting the Hospital: British Missionaries and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar • Thomas Anderson 55 Chinese Perspectives on Medical Missionaries in the 19th Century: The Chinese Medical Missionary Journal • Gao Xi 56 Language, Medical Auxiliaries, and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga, Zambia, 1922–51 • Walima T. Kalusa Mission and Other Faith Traditions 57 Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the Face of the Indigenous Religions of New Spain • Sergio Botta 58 Some Hindu Perspectives on Christian Missionaries in the Indic World of the Mid Nineteenth Century • Richard Fox Young 59 Methodists and Muslims in the Gambia • Martha T. Frederiks 60 Evangelicalism, Islam, and Millennial Expectation in the Nineteenth Century • Andrew Porter Mission and Art 61 Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–1800 • Cécile Fromont 62 The Indian Conquest of Catholic Art: The Mughals, the Jesuits, and Imperial Mural Painting • Gauvin Alexander Bailey 63 The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India • Gauvin Alexander Bailey 64 Africanising Christian Imagery in Southern African Missions • Elizabeth Rankin Index of Places Index of Personal Names