Protestant missions and local encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Subtitle: unto the ends of the world
By: edited by Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, and Karina Hestad Skeie
Series: Studies in Christian mission -- v. 40
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9789004202986
Subjects: Protestant churches; Missions; History
Description: This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire 'to the ends of the world'. Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada and Britain. Engaging in activities from education, health care and development aid to religion, ethnography and collection of material culture, Christian missionaries considered themselves as global actors working for the benefit of common humanity. Yet, the missionaries came from, and operated within a variety of nation-states. Thus this volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.
Notes: Includes index.