Описание: Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.
Описание: Charles Isenberg (1806-64) and Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-81) were Anglican missionaries who in 1839 travelled to the Abyssinian kingdom of Shoa. Their journals, published in 1843, describe their experiences among the people of Ethiopia. The book begins with an important geographical account of the region by James MacQueen.
Описание: The sixteenth-century Jesuit Francis Xavier was invoked as the patron saint of Catholic missionaries as a result of his endeavours in India, Japan and China. This 1862 book is a re-evaluation of his life and achievements, based on intensive study of Xavier`s letters by a leading Anglican missionary.
Описание: The essays in this volume examine the unforeseen cultural conversions set in motion by Christian missionary activity in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia during the ninetennth and twentieth centuries.
Описание: Based on John Williams' meticulous documentation of his travels, this 1837 volume offers an insight into the perilous life of a missionary in the early nineteenth century. The author, an ironmonger by trade, set sail for the South Sea Islands in 1817 with the intention of spreading the gospel and introducing modern technology to the region. As well as recounting the frequent threats to his safety from angry natives, war, natural disaster and disease, Williams provides detailed surveys of the peoples, languages and natural environment he encountered and describes with great exuberance and humour 'the impression made upon barbarous people by their first intercourse with civilised man'. Made more poignant by the author's death at the hands of cannibals just two years after the book's publication, this is an extraordinary account of the perseverance and ingenuity of a man who became a hero and martyr for the Protestant missionary movement.
Описание: In 1854, American Presbyterian missionaries arrived in Egypt as part of a larger Anglo-American Protestant movement aiming for worldwide evangelization. Protected by British imperial power, and later by mounting American global influence, their enterprise flourished during the next century. American Evangelicals in Egypt follows the ongoing and oft
Описание: An important work for the nineteenth century history of East Africa. It contains a new introduction with a biographical sketch of Krapf.
Автор: Fjelde Tjelle Kristin Название: Missionary Masculinity, 1870-1930 ISBN: 1137336358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137336354 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: What kind of men were missionaries? What kind of masculinity did they represent, in ideology as well as in practice? Presupposing masculinity to be a cluster of cultural ideas and social practices that change over time and space, and not a stable entity with a natural, inherent meaning, Kristin Fjelde Tjelle seeks to answer such questions.
Автор: Saint-Laurent Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Название: Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches ISBN: 0520284968 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284968 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 12672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers a study about the missionaries` voyages in the Syrian Orient to illustrate their shared symbols and motifs. This book reveals how these texts encapsulated the concerns of the communities that produced them, and draws attention to the role of hagiography.
Описание: In 1835, Joseph Wolff (1795-1862) published this extraordinary account of his recent travels through the Middle East and Asia. Though he met with limited evangelical success, his published work made him known to British readers. Having experienced robbery and disease, Wolff reflects the zeal of a nineteenth-century Christian missionary.
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