Constructing Mission History

Author : Stanley H. Skreslet
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506481906

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Three master narratives currently dominate the analysis of modern mission history.?One puts foreign missionaries at the heart of the story.?A second emphasizes the colonial aspect of modern missions.?Here, missionaries are not heroes but villains, who are implicated in hegemonic schemes of imperial domination.?Thirdly, mission history is subordinated to one of its outcomes, the advent of World Christianity.?In this master narrative, the concept of contextualization looms large, bolstered by Sanneh's notion of translatability and emphasis on the agency of non-Westerners, who participate in and subtly shape the complex social processes of evangelization.?While all three of these master narratives are insightful, none of them adequately balances concern for missionary initiative and indigenous agency.?? Borrowing from speech-act theory, Skreslet offers a new analytical approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a speaker might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.?Corresponding to the concepts of illocution and perlocution as these technical terms are used in speech-act theory, the book is structured in two main sections.?Initially, the focus is on expressed missionary motives. Part two engages a representative set of modern-era mission performances involving many more actors than just the foreign evangelizers whose stated or implied intentions are emphasized in part one.

Author : Stanley H. Skreslet
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506481890

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Constructing Mission History by Stanley H. Skreslet Pdf

Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.

Author : Erik Sidenvall
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004174085

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The Making of Manhood Among Swedish Missionaries in China and Mongolia, C. 1890-c. 1914 by Erik Sidenvall Pdf

Over the last thirty years, issues of gender have been creatively explored within the field of mission studies. Whereas the life and work of female missionaries have been fruitfully reflected upon, male gender identity has often been understood as an unchanging category. This book offers a pioneering account of the relationship between missionary work and masculinity. By examining four individual men this study explores how self-making occurred within foreign missions, but also how conceptions of male gender informed missionary work. Changes that occurred in the lives of these men are placed within the broader context of how issues of gender were renegotiated within the contemporary missionary movement.

Author : Kimberly D. Hill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813179841

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A Higher Mission by Kimberly D. Hill Pdf

In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission—an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming—ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Mission illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries—who are often overlooked and under-studied—but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era.

Author : Gallagher, Rogert L.,Hertig, Paul
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336760

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Contemporary Mission Theology by Gallagher, Rogert L.,Hertig, Paul Pdf

Author : Robert W. Strayer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Missions
ISBN : 0873952456

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The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa by Robert W. Strayer Pdf

The Making of Mission Communities in East Africa calls into question a number of common assumptions about the encounter between European missionaries and African societies in colonial Kenya. The book explores the origins of those communities associated with the Anglican Church Missionary Society from 1875 to 1935, examines the development within them of a "mission culture," probes their internal conflicts and tensions, and details their relationship to the larger colonial society. Professor Strayer argues that genuinely religious issues were important in the formation of these communities, that missionaries were ambivalent in their attitudes toward modernizing change and the colonial state alike, and that mission communities possessed substantial attractions even in the face of competition with independent churches. Dr. John Lonsdale of Trinity College, Cambridge has said that "It is a sensitive piece of revisionist history which breaks down the simple dichotomy of 'missions' and 'Africans' commonly found in earlier historiographies--and even in the period of profound crisis over female circumcision in Kikuyuland. In this, Professor Strayer shows convincingly how mission communities could be preserved from destruction by principled divisions between Africans as much as between their white missionaries. He has pursued themes rather than events and has therefore been able to make remarkably intimate observations of mission communities which were following their own internal patterns of growth, yet within the context of a deepening situation of colonial dependence.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Stanislaus County (Calif.)
ISBN : UCD:31175001809436

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History of Stanislaus County, California by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Fresno County (Calif.)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924007656196

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History of Fresno County. California, with Illustrations ... from Original Drawings, with Biographical Sketches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026915566

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The American Architect and Building News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109567948

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Christian Literature and Review of the Churches by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400833740

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The Great American Mission by David Ekbladh Pdf

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Theology
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3TDP

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The Thinker by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jay Matenga,Malcom Gold
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878085958

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Mission in Motion by Jay Matenga,Malcom Gold Pdf

Never before has the phenomenon of mission mobilization been so broadly researched. In a vein similar to Too Valuable To Lose and Worth Keeping, the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission commissioned a research team to investigate what motivates people into mission service from around the globe. Mobilization practitioners recorded, translated and transcribed hundreds of hours of interview dialogue that explored reasons for mission involvement from Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North and South America, Oceania, East Asia, South Asia and East Africa. The data was subsequently analyzed to draw out common themes, and Mission In Motion presents the results of this research. This book is the first definitive exploration of the recent history, ministries and methods of mission mobilization. The evangelical missions community is expending much energy and resource trying to raise up workers for the Lord’s harvest, but is it helping? Are the means, models, methods, and mechanisms being applied to this end effective? What does influence people to greater involvement in mission—whatever they understand mission to be? Furthermore, what hinders it? In addressing these questions, Mission In Motion allows the interviewed respondents to speak for themselves, in an open and frank manner. Some results confirm common beliefs, but others may surprise you.

Author : Frank A. Perry
Publisher : Museum of Art & History @ the McPherson Center
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Lime
ISBN : UCSC:32106017145175

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Lime Kiln Legacies by Frank A. Perry Pdf

Author : Paul Borthwick
Publisher : NavPress Publishing Group
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891091912

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A Mind for Missions by Paul Borthwick Pdf

Discover 10 building blocks for seeing the world beyond your borders--a world full of people God loves and wants you to love.