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Missionaries of Modernity
Author | : Antonio Giustozzi,Artemy M. Kalinovsky,Paul Robinson,Bob Spencer,Alfia Sorokina |
Publsiher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1849044805 |
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This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1920s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and after 2001, but also deals with virtually every single advisory mission from the 1920s on-wards, whether involving 'Eastern Bloc' countries or Western ones. The sections on Afghanistan are based on new research, while the sections covering other cases of advisory/mentoring missions are based on the existing literature. The authors highlight how large scale missions have been particularly problematic, causing friction with the hosts and sometimes even undermining their legitimacy. Small missions staffed by more carefully selected cadres appear instead to have produced better results. Overall, the political context may well have been a more important factor in determining success or failure rather than aspects such as cultural misunderstandings.
Missionaries and Modernity
Author | : Felicity Jensz |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 152617443X |
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This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It clearly It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalent legacy of mission schools.
Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity
Author | : David Woodbridge |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004376106 |
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In Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity, David Woodbridge examines the activities of Brethren missionaries in twentieth-century China. Ranging from the coastal treaty ports to the inland frontiers, the book presents a fascinating encounter between primitivist missionaries and a modernising China.
Missionary Education
Author | : Kim Christiaens,Idesbald Goddeeris,Pieter Verstraete |
Publsiher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789462702301 |
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Missionaries have been subject to academic and societal debate. Some scholars highlight their contribution to the spread of modernity and development among local societies, whereas others question their motives and emphasise their inseparable connection with colonialism. In this volume, fifteen authors – from both Europe and the Global South – address these often polemical positions by focusing on education, one of the most prominent fields in which missionaries have been active. They elaborate on Protestantism as well as Catholicism, work with cases from the 18th to the 21st century, and cover different colonial empires in Asia and Africa. The volume introduces new angles, such as gender, the agency of the local population, and the perspective of the child.
In God s Empire
Author | : Owen White,J.P. Daughton,James Patrick Daughton |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195396447 |
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A collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars in the field, In God's Empire examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution. More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an essential feature of French contact and interaction with local populations. In many parts of the world, missionaries were the first French men and women to work and live among indigenous societies. For all the celebration of France's secular "civilizing mission," it was more often than not religious workers who actually fulfilled the daily tasks of running schools, hospitals, and orphanages. While their work was often tied to small villages, missionaries' interactions had geopolitical implications. Focusing on many regions--from the Ottoman Empire and the United States to Indochina and the Pacific Ocean--this book explores how France used missionaries' long connections with local communities as a means of political influence and justification for colonial expansion. In God's Empire offers readers both an overview of the major historical dimensions of the French evangelical enterprise, as well as an introduction to the theoretical and methodological challenges of placing French missionary work within the context of European, colonial, and religious history.
Of Missionaries and Modernity
Author | : Leslie Ann Woodhouse |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCAL:C3447376 |
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Conversion to Modernities
Author | : Peter van der Veer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781136661839 |
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Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of modernity. Religious perceptions of the self, of community, and of the state are transformed when Western discourses of modernity become dominant in the modern world. This volume seeks to relate Europe and its Others by exploring conversion both in modern Europe and in the colonized world.
Christian Moderns
Author | : Webb Keane |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2007-01-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780520939219 |
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Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.