Missionary Encounters

Missionary Encounters

Missionary Encounters

Missionary Encounters

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Overview

Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies.

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ISBN-13: 9781136786167
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/05/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 264
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Authored by Bickers, Robert A.; Seton, Rosemary

Table of Contents

Introduction, David Arnold, Robert A. Bickers; Chapter 1 “Mighty England do Good”, Steven Maughan; Chapter 2 Some Problems in Writing a Missionary Society History Today, Brian Stanley; Chapter 3 “Open Doors for Female Labourers”, Rosemary Seton; Chapter 4 *Any user of the CMS Archive must owe a large debt of gratitude to Miss Rosemary Keen, Archivist of the Church Missionary Society, who produced the excellent catalogue, and to the Archives’s present custodians, the helpful and knowledgeable staff of the Heslop Room, Birmingham University Library, notably Dr B. S. Benedikz and Miss Christine Penney., J. D. Y. Peel; Chapter 5 Four Nineteenth-Century Pictorial Images from Africa in the Basel Mission Archive and Library CollectionsI would like to express my especial thanks to the School of Oriental and African Studies for inviting me to take part in its Workshop on Mission Archives; to Timothy Garrard for his stimulating comments on three of the images discussed here; and to Barbara Frey, Claudia Fritz, Regula Iselin and Anna Pytlik for their open-minded and critical work together in the current project to catalogue the Basel Mission’s photographic archive and to publish it in an interactive electronic system., Paul Jenkins; Chapter 6 Women and Education in South Africa, Deborah Gaitskell; Chapter 7 The Nature of a Mission Community, Justin Willis; Chapter 8 *Part Icipation in the Workshop on Missionary Archives was made possible by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the British Academy., Dick Kooiman; Chapter 9 A ‘Peculiar and Exceptional Measure’, Rosemary Fitzgerald; Chapter 10 Missionaries as Social Commentators, Geoffrey A. Oddie; Chapter 11 “To Serve and Not to Rule”, Robert A. Bickers; appendix Archival Sources in Britain for the Study of Mission History, Rosemary Seton;
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