03132nam 2200661Ia 450 991081888230332120230617002600.01-281-36907-197866113690711-4039-8232-510.1057/9781403982322(CKB)1000000000362159(SSID)ssj0000519130(PQKBManifestationID)12175771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000519130(PQKBWorkID)10495612(PQKB)10898181(SSID)ssj0000203713(PQKBManifestationID)11181330(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203713(PQKBWorkID)10174442(PQKB)11356904(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8232-2(MiAaPQ)EBC307983(Au-PeEL)EBL307983(CaPaEBR)ebr10135627(CaONFJC)MIL136907(OCoLC)560467218(EXLCZ)99100000000036215920040706d2005 uy 0engurnn#008mamaatxtccrMixed messages[electronic resource] materiality, textuality, missions /edited by Jamie S. Scott and Gareth Griffiths1st ed. 2005.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (XIII, 268 p. 3 illus.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-312-29577-4 0-312-29576-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.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 .MissionsHistoryReligion and cultureHistoryMissionsHistory.Religion and cultureHistory.207/.2Scott Jamie S606309Griffiths Gareth1943-168637MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818882303321Mixed messages4053532UNINA