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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457745003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

1-281-36907-1

9786611369071

1-4039-8232-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 268 p. 3 illus.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ScottJamie S

GriffithsGareth <1943->

Disciplina

207/.2

Soggetti

Missions - History

Religion and culture - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996347747203316

Titolo

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 : The Northern Impact and Beyond / / Kari Aga Myklebost, Jens Petter Nielsen, Andrei Rogatchevski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64469-065-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 211 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Disciplina

947.084/1

Soggetti

HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Cover Picture: An Explanatory Note -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. The Russian Revolution and Civil War in the North: Contemporary Approaches and Understanding -- 2. The Russian Revolution in Sweden: Some Genetic and Genealogical Perspectives -- 3. The Idea of a Liberal Russia: The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch -- 4. Arkhangelsk Province and Northern Norway in 1917–1920: Foreign Property and Capital after the October Revolution of 1917 -- 5. Russian Emigration to Norway after the Russian Revolution and Civil War -- 6. Soviet Diplomacy in Norway and Sweden in the Interwar Years: The Role of Alexandra Kollontai -- 7. Apprentices of the World Revolution: Norwegian Communists at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMZ) and the International Lenin School, 1926–1937 -- 8. The Impact of the October Revolution on the North-Norwegian Labor Movement -- 9. Avant-garde Artists vs. Reindeer Herders: The Kazym Rebellion in Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Angels of the Revolution (2014) -- 10. 1917: The Evolution of Russian Émigré Views of the Revolution -- 11. Russian Revolutions Exhibited: Behind the Scenes -- 12. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Kremlin’s Policy of Remembrance -- Index of Names

Sommario/riassunto

The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other



parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern dimension; in October 2017, the University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway hosted the conference The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond. Norway and Russia are both northern states, and the two countries have a common border in the High North. Some articles in this volume, based on the conference proceedings, investigate the impact of the Russian Revolution in Norway and Sweden, while others deal with the High North, e.g. the Revolution and Civil War in Northern Russia and the radicalization of the workers’ movement of Northern Norway; some are also devoted to representations of the Russian Revolution at exhibitions and on the big screen.