Reporting Christian missions in the eighteenth century
Subtitle: communication, culture of knowledge and regular publication in a cross-confessional perspective
By: edited by Markus Friedrich and Alexander Schunka
Series: Jabloniana : Quellen und Forschungen zur europäischen Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit -- Bd. 8; Jabloniana -- Bd. 8.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag; Harrassowitz
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9783447108256
Subjects: Missions; History; Religious newspapers and periodicals; Publishers and publishing; Identification (Religion)
Description: Regular reporting on extra-European Christian missions was a distinctive feature of the early modern era, changing the worldviews of Europe and Europeans. The present collection of essays offers an innovative approach to this phenomenon by comparing different missionary publications from a cross-confessional perspective. It establishes a broader framework for understanding the organized and institutionalized transfers of knowledge from the missions to Europe. 0The volume discusses the comparability of the different missionary periodicals from the vantage point of cultural history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Markus Friedrich, -- Alexander Schunka; title: Missionary reports and their relevance as ethnographic sources  -- Iris Gareis; title: Between curiosity and edification: printing and editing the Nouveaux mémoires de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le Levant  -- Markus Friedrich; title: Apologetics, polemics, and knowledge in French Jesuit Culture: the collection of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses (1702-1776)  -- Adrien Paschoud; title: The German circumnavigation of the globe: missionary writing, colonial identity formation, and the case of Joseph Stöcklein's Neuer Welt-Bott  -- Galaxis Borja González, -- Ulrike Strasser; title: Domestic(ating) expansion in the publications of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: translocal activism, national church reform, and global missionary operations before 1800  -- Alexander Pyrges; title: The Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: anniversary sermons and abstracts of proceedings  -- Jeremy Gregory; title: Controlled transparency: the Hallesche Berichte and Neue Hallesche Berichte between 1710 and 1848  -- Heike Liebau; title: Global communication among the Moravian Brethren: the circulation of knowledge and its structures and logistics  -- Gisela Mettele; title: Representing Catholic and Protestant missions in German periodicals of the early eighteenth century -- Alexander Schunka-- Contributor biographies.