The Mission of Development

The Mission of Development interrogates the complex relationships between Christian mission and international development in Asia from the 19th to the 21st century. Through detailed case studies the chapters break new ground in the study of religion, techno-politics and development.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Catherine Scheer, Ph.D. (2014), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, is Lecturer at the Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Heidelberg. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Philip Fountain, Ph.D. (2011), Australian National University, is Teaching Fellow in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include Religion and the Politics of Development (Palgrave, 2015), edited with Robin Bush and R. Michael Feener.

R. Michael Feener, Ph.D. (1999), Boston University, is the is the Sultan of Oman Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, and Islamic Centre Lecturer in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. His publications include Sharia and Social Engineering (OUP, 2014).

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Catherine Scheer (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.06.2018
• EAN: 9789004359086
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35908-6
• Seiten: 284
• Abmessung: 156 mm x 233 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 402 g
• Serie: Theology and Mission in World
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum