Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Martha Frederiks is Professor for the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a contributing editor of the series Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (Leiden: Brill), co-editor of Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity and with Lucien van Liere editor-in-chief of Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (Leiden: Brill). Dorottya Nagy is Professor of Theology and Migration at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam (PThU), the Netherlands. Migration studies and awareness for responsible methodology lie at the heart of her academic interests. She is president of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS) and editor of its journal.Together they published Religion, Migration, and Identity. Methodological and Theological Explorations (Leiden: Brill, 2017) and World Christianity. Methodological Considerations (Leiden: Brill, 2020).

• VOLUME 1IntroductionDorottya Nagy and Martha FrederiksPart 1: Methods1 Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern AfricaNorman Etherington2 Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission HistoryAndrea Schultze3 ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’: Missionaries, Converts, and NarrationGareth Griffiths4 The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in (South) African Mission HistoriographyTinyiko Sam Maluleke5 Sources in Mission ArchivesAdam Jones6 The Midwest China Oral History CollectionJane Baker Koons7 From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East—A Journey Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database ProjectTerry Barringer8 Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian CaseGeoffrey A. Oddie9 Thinking Missiologically about the History of MissionStanley H. Skreslet10 Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540–1773Steven J. Harris11 The Global “Bookkeeping” of Souls: Quantification and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical MissionsMartin Petzke12 The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission FieldHyaeweol Choi13 On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern DiscussionPaul Jenkins14 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New DirectionsAn Introduction to Supplement 10Joel Robbins15 Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous Autonomy in Colonial CaliforniaLee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider16 Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station, New ZealandIan W. G. Smith17 Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New HebridesJean MitchellVOLUME 2Part 2: Approaches18 Eusebius Tries Again: Reconceiving the Study of Christian HistoryAndrew F. Walls19 From Missions to Mission to beyond MissionsThe Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World War IIDana L. Robert20 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C. G. A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West IndiesAnders Ahlbäck21 The Colonization of ConsciousnessJohn and Jean Comaroff22 Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global ModernityRyan Dunch23 The Culture Concept and the Mission of the Roman Catholic ChurchMichael V. Angrosino24 The Problem of Colonialism in the Western Historiography of Christian MissionsJane Samson25 Theology and Mission between Neocolonialism and PostcolonialismJoerg Rieger26 Translating the Word: Dialogism and Debate in Two Gikuyu DictionariesDerek Peterson27 The Gospel, Language and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural AnalysisLamin Sanneh28 Women and Cultural ExchangesPatricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock29 Understanding the World-Christian Turn in the History of Christianity and TheologyPaul Kollman30 Transcontinental Links, Enlarged Maps, and Polycentric Structures in the History of World ChristianityKlaus Koschorke31 World Christianity as a Theological Approach: A Reflection on Central and Eastern EuropeDorottya NagyVOLUME 3Part 3: Themes IMission and Language32 Bunyan in AfricaText and TransitionIsabel Hofmeyr33 Translation TeamsMissionaries, Islanders, and the Reduction of Language in the PacificJane Samson34 Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New GuineaBambi B. Schieffelin35 Exploring Nineteenth-Century Haida Translations of the New TestamentMarcus TomalinMission and Politics36 Race, History, and the Australian Faith MissionsJoanna Cruickshank37 British Missions and Indian Nationalism, 1880–1908: Imitation and Autonomy in Calcutta and MadrasChandra Mallampalli38 Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial Hausaland: Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930sShobana ShankarMission and Social Change39 Christian Mind and Worldly MattersReligion and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Gold CoastBirgit Meyer40 Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Postcolonial Democratic DevelopmentTomila Lankina and Lullit Getachew41 A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in OceaniaMargaret JollyMissionaries42 Christian Missionaries as Anticolonial MilitantsKaren E. Fields43 Saint Apolo from Europe, or ‘What’s in a Luganda Name?’Emma Wild-Wood44 ‘Culture’ as a Tool and an Obstacle: Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet KyrgyzstanMathijs Pelkmans45 ‘It’s Really Where Your Parents Were’: Differentiating and Situating Protestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c. 1900–1940Hugh MorrisonMission, Women and Gender46 ‘God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary’s Wife’: Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840sValentine Cunningham47 Female Emancipation in an Imperial Frame: English Women and the Campaign against Sati (Widow-Burning) in India, 1813–30Clare Midgley48 Married to the Mission Field: Gender, Christianity, and Professionalization in Britain and Colonial Africa, 1865–1914Elizabeth PrevostVOLUME 4Part 4: Themes IIMission, Education, and Science49 From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850–1900Modupe Labode50 From Transformation to Negotiation: A Female Mission in a “City of Schools”Julia Hauser51 Some Reflections on Anthropology’s Missionary PositionsJohn W. Burton with Orsolya Arva Burton52 Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and BotanyPatrick HarriesMission, Health, and Healing53 The Medical Mission Strategy of the Maryknoll SistersSuzanne R. Thurman54 Converting the Hospital: British Missionaries and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century MadagascarThomas Anderson55 Chinese Perspectives on Medical Missionaries in the 19th Century: The Chinese Medical Missionary JournalGao Xi56 Language, Medical Auxiliaries, and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga, Zambia, 1922–51Walima T. KalusaMission and Other Faith Traditions57 Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the Face of the Indigenous Religions of New SpainSergio Botta58 Some Hindu Perspectives on Christian Missionaries in the Indic World of the Mid Nineteenth CenturyRichard Fox Young59 Methodists and Muslims in the GambiaMartha T. Frederiks60 Evangelicalism, Islam, and Millennial Expectation in the Nineteenth CenturyAndrew PorterMission and Art61 Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–180Cécile Fromont62 The Indian Conquest of Catholic Art. The Mughals, the Jesuits, and Imperial Mural PaintingGauvin Alexander Bailey63 The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal IndiaGauvin Alexander Bailey64 Africanising Christian Imagery in Southern African MissionsElizabeth RankinIndex of Names