Robert A. Bickers, Rosemary Seton

Missionary Encounters (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136786099
• Artikelnr.: 39993160

Autorenporträt

Authored by Bickers, Robert A.; Seton, Rosemary

Inhaltsangabe

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;