Title: Reporting Christian missions in the eighteenth century
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.
Subjects: Missions, History, Religious newspapers and periodicals, Publishers and publishing, Identification (Religion), Early works to 1800
Places: Europe
Time periods: 18th century