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Mixed messages : materiality, textuality, missions / edited by Jamie S. Scott and Gareth Griffiths.

Contributor(s): Scott, Jamie S | Griffiths, Gareth, 1943-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: xiii, pages 268 : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: unspecifiedISBN: 0312295774 (pbk.); 9780312295776 (pbk.); 0312295766; 9780312295769Subject(s): Missions -- History | Religion and culture -- HistoryDDC classification: 207/.2 LOC classification: BL637 | .M59 2005Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-255) and index.
Contents:
Master narratives of imperial missions / Jeffrey Cox -- Inventing the world: transnationalism, transmission, and Christian textualities / Isabel Hofmeyr -- The missionary writing machine in nineteenth-century KwaZulu-Natal / Norman Etherington -- Popular imperial adventure fiction and the discourse of missionary texts / Gareth Griffiths -- Books and bodices: material culture and Protestant missions in colonial South India / Eliza F. Kent -- Landscapes of faith: British missionary tourism in the South Pacific / Jane Samson -- Penitential and penitentiary: native Canadians and colonial mission education / Jamie S. Scott -- Da'wa in the West: Islamic mission in American form / Jane I. Smith -- The spread of Buddhism in the West: missionary work and the pattern of religious diffusion / James William Coleman -- "In every town, country and village my name will be sung": Hindu missions in India and abroad / Klaus K. Klostermaier -- Articles of faith: international relations and "missionary" scholarship / J. Marshall Beier -- Afterword: global conversions / Peter van der Veer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-255) and index.

Master narratives of imperial missions / Jeffrey Cox -- Inventing the world: transnationalism, transmission, and Christian textualities / Isabel Hofmeyr -- The missionary writing machine in nineteenth-century KwaZulu-Natal / Norman Etherington -- Popular imperial adventure fiction and the discourse of missionary texts / Gareth Griffiths -- Books and bodices: material culture and Protestant missions in colonial South India / Eliza F. Kent -- Landscapes of faith: British missionary tourism in the South Pacific / Jane Samson -- Penitential and penitentiary: native Canadians and colonial mission education / Jamie S. Scott -- Da'wa in the West: Islamic mission in American form / Jane I. Smith -- The spread of Buddhism in the West: missionary work and the pattern of religious diffusion / James William Coleman -- "In every town, country and village my name will be sung": Hindu missions in India and abroad / Klaus K. Klostermaier -- Articles of faith: international relations and "missionary" scholarship / J. Marshall Beier -- Afterword: global conversions / Peter van der Veer.

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