Title: Cultural conversions : unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia /
Authors: Sharkey, Heather J. 1967-; Sharkey, Heather J. 1967-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Kulturvermittlung.; Kulturkontakt.; Mission; Missions Middle East; Missions Africa; Missions South Asia.; Christianity Influence; Christianity and culture.; Christianity and politics; Christianity and culture; Christianity and politics; Christianity Influence; Missions; Africa; Middle East; South Asia
Abstract: "Essays in this volume study unforeseen cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Contents: Introduction: the unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters / Heather J. Sharkey -- Conflicting conversions and unexpected Christianities in Central Africa / David M. Gordon -- Church versus country: Palestinian Arab Episcopalians, nationalism, and revolt, 1936-39 / Laura Robson -- Missionaries and ethnography in the service of litigation: Hindu law and Christian custom in India's Deccan, 1750-1863 / Chandra Mallampalli -- Hybridity, parody, and contempt: Buddhist responses to Christian missions in Sri Lanka / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- The Port Said orphan scandal of 1933: colonialism, Islamism, and the Egyptian welfare state / Beth Baron -- Robert Moffat and the invention of Christianity in South Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Missionaries and the making of colonial notables: conversions to modernity in Eritrea and Ethiopia, 1890-1935 / James De Lorenzi -- The scholar-missionaries of the Basel Mission in southwest India: language, identity, and knowledge in flux / Mrinalini Sebastian -- The gospel in Arabic tongues: British Bible distribution, evangelical mission, and language politics in North Africa / Heather J. Sharkey.