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Zusatztext ...the collection is a marvellous resource for teaching Informationen zum Autor Norman Etherington recieved his BA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He joined the History Department at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in 1968 and was subsequently appointed Reader in History. In 1989 he moved to the University of Western Australia taking up the position of Professor and Chair of History. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a past President of the Australian Historical Association, a Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a Member of the International Association for mission studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.Professor Wm Roger LouisEditor-in-ChiefKerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas, Austin Klappentext The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Special attention is paid to emerging themes such as the missionary role in anthropology, gender relations, language, medicine, and decolonization. Zusammenfassung The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged in this book by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Eliga H. Gould: Prelude: The Christianizing of British America 2: Andrew Porter: Missionaries and Empire: An Overview 1700-1914 3: Alan Lester: Humanitarians and White Settlers in the Nineteenth Century 4: John Barker: Where the Missionary Frontier Ran Ahead of Empire 5: Robert Eric Frykenberg: Christian Missions and the Raj 6: Peggy Brock: New Christians as Evangelists 7: Gareth Griffiths: 'Trained to Tell the Truth': Missionaries, Converts, and Narration 8: Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock: Women and Cultural Exchanges 9: Paul Landau: Language 10: Robert Edgar: New Religious Movements 11: Patrick Harries: Anthropology 12: Norman Etherington: Education and Medicine 13: David Maxwell: Decolonization ...
