Cultural Conversions - Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in Middle

Informationen zum Autor Heather Sharkey is associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and American Evangelicals in Egypt: Missionary Encounters in an Age of Empire. Klappentext The essays in this volume study cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Both Catholic and Protestant missionaries effected changes that often went beyond what they had intended, sometimes backfiring against the missions. These changes entailed wrenching political struggles to redefine families, communities, and lines of authority. This volume's contributors examine the meanings of "conversion" for individuals and communities in light of loyalties and cultural traditions, and consider how conversion, as a process, was often ambiguous. The history of Christian missions emerges from these pages as an integral part of world history that has stretched beyond professing Christians to affect the lives of peoples who have consciously rejected or remained largely unaware of missionary appeals. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Heather Sharkey, Heather (EDT) Sharkey, Heather J. Sharkey, SHARKEY HEATHER EDT
• Assisted by: Heather Sharkey (Editor), Heather J Sharkey (Editor), Heather J. Sharkey (Editor)
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.08.2013
• EAN: 9780815633150
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3315-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Religion and Politics; Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries