TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharkey,Heather J.
TI  - Cultural conversions: unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia 
T2  - Religion and politics
SN  - 9780815652205
AV  - BV2063 .C785 2013eb
U1  - 266.023 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Syracuse, New York
PB  - Syracuse University Press
KW  - Missions
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Africa
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Influence
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Christianity and politics
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Christianisme et politique
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Ministry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - fast
KW  - Mission
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kulturkontakt
KW  - Kulturvermittlung
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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