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 Introduction • Dorottya Nagy and Martha Frederiks Part 1: Methods 1 Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa • Norman Etherington 2 Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission History • Andrea Schultze 3 ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’: Missionaries, Converts, and Narration • Gareth Griffiths 4 The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in (South) African Mission Historiography • Tinyiko Sam Maluleke 5 Sources in Mission Archives • Adam Jones 6 The Midwest China Oral History Collection • Jane Baker Koons 7 From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East—A Journey Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database Project • Terry Barringer 8 Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian Case • Geoffrey A. Oddie 9 Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission • Stanley H. Skreslet 10 Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540–1773 • Steven J. Harris 11 The Global ‘Bookkeeping’ of Souls: Quantification and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions • Martin Petzke 12 The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission Field • Hyaeweol Choi 13 On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern Discussion • Paul Jenkins 14 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions. An Introduction to Supplement 10 • Joel Robbins 15 Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous Autonomy in Colonial California • Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider 16 Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station, New Zealand • Ian W. G. Smith 17 Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New Hebrides • Jean Mitchell Blank Page