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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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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| Pubblicazione: | Syracuse, New York : , : Syracuse University Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 266.023 |
| Soggetto topico: | Missions - Middle East |
| Missions - Africa | |
| Missions - South Asia | |
| Christianity - Influence | |
| Christianity and culture | |
| Christianity and politics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SharkeyHeather J <1967-> (Heather Jane) |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Cultural conversions |
| ISBN: | 0-8156-5220-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463534303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Religion and politics.