Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Hilde Nielssen, Dr. Polit. (2004) in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, researcher at the Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at University of Bergen. Her research ranges from museums and colonial culture to spirit possession rituals in Madagascar, and her publications include Ritual Imagination. Tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka of Eastern Madagascar (Brill, forthcoming 2011).Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ph.D., associate professor in history at Volda University College. She has co-edited several volumes and is the author of one book and numerous articles on women, missions and welfare in the Middle East. Her current research deals with missions, gender and relief in Armenia, Turkey and Syria, 1900-1950.Karina Hestad Skeie, Dr. Art. (2005) in History of Religions, University of Oslo, Associate Professor in Intercultural Studies at NLA University College, Bergen. She works on religion and mission in Madagascar and Norway. Her publications include Building God's Kingdom in Highland Madagascar (Brill, forthcoming 2011).

• Contributors include: Hilde Nielssen, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Karina Hestad Skeie, Inbal Livne, Werner Ustorf, Lisbeth Mikaelsson, Sigurd Sandmo, Anne Folke Henningsen, Heleen Murre van den Berg, Deborah Gaitskell, Ruth Compton Brouwer, Michael Marten

"This collection of essays is a welcome corrective to the imbalance towards Anglophone missions discernible in much recent writing."Brian Stanley, University of Edinburgh