Missionary Papers
Missionary Papers

Author: John C. Lowrie

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-05-03

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 3385448352

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

American Missionaries in China
American Missionaries in China

Author: Kwang-Ching Liu

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1966-07-01

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1684171520

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Includes the following papers: The Missionary Contribution to China; Science and Salvation in China: The Life and Work of W.A.P. Martin (1827-1916); Protestant Missions in China, 1877-1890: The Institutionalization of Good Works; The Missionary and Chinese Nationalism; The Missionary and China's Rural Problems ; and also an appendix on articles on missionary subjects published in Papers on China.

Was Hinduism Invented?
Was Hinduism Invented?

Author: Brian K. Pennington

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-04-28

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0190290374

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Drawing on a large body of previously untapped literature, including documents from the Church Missionary Society and Bengali newspapers, Brian Pennington offers a fascinating portrait of the process by which "Hinduism" came into being. He argues against the common idea that the modern construction of religion in colonial India was simply a fabrication of Western Orientalists and missionaries. Rather, he says, it involved the active agency and engagement of Indian authors as well, who interacted, argued, and responded to British authors over key religious issues such as image-worship, sati, tolerance, and conversion.

Entanglements of Empire
Entanglements of Empire

Author: Tony Ballantyne

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-02-14

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0822375885

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The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Māori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Māori and the English mutually influenced each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.