Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Introduction / Authors: Dorottya Nagy and Martha Frederiks -- Part 1 Methods -- Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa / Author: Norman Etherington -- Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission History / Author: Andrea Schultze -- 'Trained to Tell the Truth': Missionaries, Converts, and Narration / Author: Gareth Griffiths -- The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in (South) African Mission Historiography / Author: Tinyiko Sam Maluleke -- Sources in Mission Archives / Author: Adam Jones -- The Midwest China Oral History Collection / Author: Jane Baker Koons -- From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East-a Journey Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database Project / Author: Terry Barringer -- Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian Case / Author: Geoffrey A. Oddie -- Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission / Author: Stanley H. Skreslet -- Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540-1773 / Author: Steven J. Harris -- The Global 'Bookkeeping' of Souls: Quantification and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions / Author: Martin Petzke -- The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission Field / Author: Hyaeweol Choi -- On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern Discussion / Author: Paul Jenkins -- The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions An Introduction to Supplement 10 / Author: Joel Robbins -- Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous Autonomy in Colonial California / Authors: Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider -- Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station, New Zealand / Author: Ian W. G. Smith -- Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New Hebrides / Author: Jean Mitchell.

This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. It apprises them with current discussions, insights and theories. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art. The text-selection represents a wide variety of disciplines, authors and backgrounds. The texts were chosen because they address the complexities involved in studying the history of Christian mission. Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course-work and other educational purposes.

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