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Cultural conversions : unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia / edited by Heather J. Sharkey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and politicsPublisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780815652205
  • 0815652208
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural conversions.DDC classification:
  • 266.023 23
LOC classification:
  • BV2063 .C785 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction: the unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters / Heather J. Sharkey -- Conflicting conversions and unexpected Christianities in Central Africa / David M. Gordon -- Church versus country: Palestinian Arab Episcopalians, nationalism, and revolt, 1936-39 / Laura Robson -- Missionaries and ethnography in the service of litigation: Hindu law and Christian custom in India's Deccan, 1750-1863 / Chandra Mallampalli -- Hybridity, parody, and contempt: Buddhist responses to Christian missions in Sri Lanka / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- The Port Said orphan scandal of 1933: colonialism, Islamism, and the Egyptian welfare state / Beth Baron -- Robert Moffat and the invention of Christianity in South Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Missionaries and the making of colonial notables: conversions to modernity in Eritrea and Ethiopia, 1890-1935 / James De Lorenzi -- The scholar-missionaries of the Basel Mission in southwest India: language, identity, and knowledge in flux / Mrinalini Sebastian -- The gospel in Arabic tongues: British Bible distribution, evangelical mission, and language politics in North Africa / Heather J. Sharkey.
Summary: "Essays in this volume study unforeseen cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)714593

"Essays in this volume study unforeseen cultural conversions that arose from missionary activities in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-306) and index.

Introduction: the unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters / Heather J. Sharkey -- Conflicting conversions and unexpected Christianities in Central Africa / David M. Gordon -- Church versus country: Palestinian Arab Episcopalians, nationalism, and revolt, 1936-39 / Laura Robson -- Missionaries and ethnography in the service of litigation: Hindu law and Christian custom in India's Deccan, 1750-1863 / Chandra Mallampalli -- Hybridity, parody, and contempt: Buddhist responses to Christian missions in Sri Lanka / Stephen C. Berkwitz -- The Port Said orphan scandal of 1933: colonialism, Islamism, and the Egyptian welfare state / Beth Baron -- Robert Moffat and the invention of Christianity in South Africa / Paul S. Landau -- Missionaries and the making of colonial notables: conversions to modernity in Eritrea and Ethiopia, 1890-1935 / James De Lorenzi -- The scholar-missionaries of the Basel Mission in southwest India: language, identity, and knowledge in flux / Mrinalini Sebastian -- The gospel in Arabic tongues: British Bible distribution, evangelical mission, and language politics in North Africa / Heather J. Sharkey.

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