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UNINA9910463534303321 |
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Titolo |
Cultural conversions : unexpected consequences of Christian missionary encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia / / edited by Heather J. Sharkey |
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Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (348 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Missions - Middle East |
Missions - Africa |
Missions - South Asia |
Christianity - Influence |
Christianity and culture |
Christianity and politics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Cultural Conversions""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part One""; ""2 Conflicting Conversions and Unexpected Christianities in Central Africa""; ""3 Church versus Country""; ""4 Missionaries and Ethnography in the Service of Litigation""; ""Part Two""; ""5 Hybridity, Parody, and Contempt""; ""6 The Port Said Orphan Scandal of 1933""; ""7 Robert Moffat and the Invention of Christianity in South Africa""; ""Part Three""; ""8 Missionaries and the Making of Colonial Notables"" |
""9 The Scholar-Missionaries of the Basel Mission in Southwest India""""10 The Gospel in Arabic Tongues""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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