Construction of the Other, Identification of the Self - German Mission in India

This volume is a collection of diverse contributions that attempt to revisit the European construction of the Indian Other. In their attempt to identify their European Self, the missionaries constructed India as their Other and archived such constructions. Such archival narratives epitomize the conviction of the missionaries in their Christian faith and their belief in the superiority of the European Self. These narratives, however, provide us (for whose eyes they were not meant originally) with spaces to locate our past and to identify our own Self. This volume seeks to converse with such spaces.

About the author

Martin Tamcke, geb. 1955, Professor für Ökumenische Theologie und Orientalische Kirchen- und Missionsgeschichte an der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Mitglied zahlreicher wissenschaftlicher Gesellschaften, Consultant bei Pro Oriente sowie Mitglied der Kommission für den Dialog der EKD mit der Russisch-Orthodoxen Kirche. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Ostkirchenkunde, Christlich-Islamische Koexistenz, Syrische Kirchengeschichte, Orientalisch-Okzidentale Interaktion.

Product details

• Authors: Gladson Jathanna, Martin Tamcke
• Assisted by: Gladson Jathanna (Editor), Martin Tamcke (Editor)
• Publisher: Lit Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9783643902603
• ISBN: 978-3-643-90260-3
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 209 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 525 g
• Series: Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte; Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity