E. Hasinoff

Faith in Objects

American Missionary Expositions in the Early Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interactions with evangelism, Christianity, and the consumption of ethnological knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-29733-7
• 1st ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781349297337
• ISBN-10: 134929733X
• Artikelnr.: 45079147

Autorenporträt

Erin L. Hasinoff is a fellow in Museum Anthropology at Bard Graduate Center and in the Division of Anthropology of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: PRELIMINARIES Antecedents PART II: THE WORLD IN BOSTON OF 1911 Setting the Stage First Impressions PART III: PEDAGOGICAL ARCHITECTURE Object Lessons Spiritless Pleasures PART IV: THE MISSIONARY EXHIBIT OF 1900 An Established Tradition Missionary Engagements Objects of Missionary Education PART V: STEWARDSHIP Scripted Parts Life-Long Lessons Epilogue

Rezensionen

'Thorough, balanced, theoretically informed, and gracefully written. The strength of the study is the wonderful way in which the author takes complex anthropological issues and lucidly demonstrates their relevance for the understanding of this important exhibition. The book will expand a very small literature, making an enormous and thoroughly original contribution.' - David Morgan, Professor of Religion, Duke University, USA