Table of Contents

VOLUME 1



Introduction

 Dorottya Nagy and Martha Frederiks



Part 1: Methods

1 Recent Trends in the Historiography of Christianity in Southern Africa

 Norman Etherington



2 Writing of Past Times: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Mission History

 Andrea Schultze



3 ‘Trained to Tell the Truth’: Missionaries, Converts, and Narration

 Gareth Griffiths



4 The Quest for Muted Black Voices in History: Some Pertinent Issues in (South) African Mission Historiography

 Tinyiko Sam Maluleke



5 Sources in Mission Archives

 Adam Jones



6 The Midwest China Oral History Collection

 Jane Baker Koons



7 From Beyond Alpine Snow and Homes of the East—A Journey Through Missionary Periodicals: The Missionary Periodicals Database Project

 Terry Barringer



8 Missionaries as Social Commentators: The Indian Case

 Geoffrey A. Oddie



9 Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission

 Stanley H. Skreslet



10 Jesuit Scientific Activity in the Overseas Missions, 1540–1773

 Steven J. Harris



11 The Global “Bookkeeping” of Souls: Quantification and Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Missions

 Martin Petzke



12 The Visual Embodiment of Women in the Korea Mission Field

 Hyaeweol Choi



13 On Using Historical Missionary Photographs in Modern Discussion

 Paul Jenkins



14 The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions

An Introduction to Supplement 10

 Joel Robbins



15 Expanding Mission Archaeology: A Landscape Approach to Indigenous Autonomy in Colonial California

 Lee M. Panich and Tsim D. Schneider



16 Schooling on the Missionary Frontier: The Hohi Mission Station, New Zealand

 Ian W. G. Smith



17 Objects of Expert Knowledge: On Time and the Materialities of Conversion to Christianity in the Southern New Hebrides

 Jean Mitchell



VOLUME 2



Part 2: Approaches

18 Eusebius Tries Again: Reconceiving the Study of Christian History

 Andrew F. Walls



19 From Missions to Mission to beyond Missions

The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World War II

 Dana L. Robert



20 The Overly Candid Missionary Historian: C. G. A. Oldendorp’s Theological Ambivalence over Slavery in the Danish West Indies

 Anders Ahlbäck



21 The Colonization of Consciousness

 John and Jean Comaroff



22 Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Cultural Theory, Christian Missions, and Global Modernity

 Ryan Dunch



23 The Culture Concept and the Mission of the Roman Catholic Church

 Michael V. Angrosino



24 The Problem of Colonialism in the Western Historiography of Christian Missions

 Jane Samson



25 Theology and Mission between Neocolonialism and Postcolonialism

 Joerg Rieger



26 Translating the Word: Dialogism and Debate in Two Gikuyu Dictionaries

 Derek Peterson



27 The Gospel, Language and Culture: The Theological Method in Cultural Analysis

 Lamin Sanneh



28 Women and Cultural Exchanges

 Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock



29 Understanding the World-Christian Turn in the History of Christianity and Theology

 Paul Kollman



30 Transcontinental Links, Enlarged Maps, and Polycentric Structures in the History of World Christianity

 Klaus Koschorke



31 World Christianity as a Theological Approach: A Reflection on Central and Eastern Europe

 Dorottya Nagy



VOLUME 3



Part 3: Themes I

Mission and Language

32 Bunyan in Africa

Text and Transition

 Isabel Hofmeyr



33 Translation Teams

Missionaries, Islanders, and the Reduction of Language in the Pacific

 Jane Samson



34 Christianizing Language and the Dis-placement of Culture in Bosavi, Papua New Guinea

 Bambi B. Schieffelin



35 Exploring Nineteenth-Century Haida Translations of the New Testament

 Marcus Tomalin



Mission and Politics

36 Race, History, and the Australian Faith Missions

 Joanna Cruickshank



37 British Missions and Indian Nationalism, 1880–1908: Imitation and Autonomy in Calcutta and Madras

 Chandra Mallampalli



38 Medical Missionaries and Modernizing Emirs in Colonial Hausaland: Leprosy Control and Native Authority in the 1930s

 Shobana Shankar



Mission and Social Change

39 Christian Mind and Worldly Matters

Religion and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast

 Birgit Meyer



40 Mission or Empire, Word or Sword? The Human Capital Legacy in Postcolonial Democratic Development

 Tomila Lankina and Lullit Getachew



41 A Saturated History of Christianity and Cloth in Oceania

 Margaret Jolly



Missionaries

42 Christian Missionaries as Anticolonial Militants

 Karen E. Fields



43 Saint Apolo from Europe, or ‘What’s in a Luganda Name?’

 Emma Wild-Wood



44 ‘Culture’ as a Tool and an Obstacle: Missionary Encounters in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

 Mathijs Pelkmans



45 ‘It’s Really Where Your Parents Were’: Differentiating and Situating Protestant Missionary Children’s Lives, c. 1900–1940

 Hugh Morrison



Mission, Women and Gender

46 ‘God and Nature Intended You for a Missionary’s Wife’: Mary Hill, Jane Eyre and Other Missionary Women in the 1840s

 Valentine Cunningham



47 Female Emancipation in an Imperial Frame: English Women and the Campaign against Sati (Widow-Burning) in India, 1813–30

 Clare Midgley



48 Married to the Mission Field: Gender, Christianity, and Professionalization in Britain and Colonial Africa, 1865–1914

 Elizabeth Prevost



VOLUME 4



Part 4: Themes II

Mission, Education, and Science

49 From Heathen Kraal to Christian Home: Anglican Mission Education and African Christian Girls, 1850–1900

 Modupe Labode



50 From Transformation to Negotiation: A Female Mission in a “City of Schools”

 Julia Hauser



51 Some Reflections on Anthropology’s Missionary Positions

 John W. Burton with Orsolya Arva Burton



52 Natural Science and Naturvölker: Missionary Entomology and Botany

 Patrick Harries



Mission, Health, and Healing

53 The Medical Mission Strategy of the Maryknoll Sisters

 Suzanne R. Thurman



54 Converting the Hospital: British Missionaries and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Madagascar

 Thomas Anderson



55 Chinese Perspectives on Medical Missionaries in the 19th Century: The Chinese Medical Missionary Journal

 Gao Xi



56 Language, Medical Auxiliaries, and the Re-interpretation of Missionary Medicine in Colonial Mwinilunga, Zambia, 1922–51

 Walima T. Kalusa



Mission and Other Faith Traditions

57 Towards a Missionary Theory of Polytheism: The Franciscans in the Face of the Indigenous Religions of New Spain

 Sergio Botta



58 Some Hindu Perspectives on Christian Missionaries in the Indic World of the Mid Nineteenth Century

 Richard Fox Young



59 Methodists and Muslims in the Gambia

 Martha T. Frederiks



60 Evangelicalism, Islam, and Millennial Expectation in the Nineteenth Century

 Andrew Porter



Mission and Art

61 Dance, Image, Myth, and Conversion in the Kingdom of Kongo, 1500–180

 Cécile Fromont



62 The Indian Conquest of Catholic Art. The Mughals, the Jesuits, and Imperial Mural Painting

 Gauvin Alexander Bailey



63 The Truth-Showing Mirror: Jesuit Catechism and the Arts in Mughal India

 Gauvin Alexander Bailey



64 Africanising Christian Imagery in Southern African Missions

 Elizabeth Rankin



Index of Names

About the Author

Martha Frederiks is Professor for the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a contributing editor of the series Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (Leiden: Brill), co-editor of Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity and with Lucien van Liere editor-in-chief of Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (Leiden: Brill).




Dorottya Nagy is Professor of Theology and Migration at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam (PThU), the Netherlands. Migration studies and awareness for responsible methodology lie at the heart of her academic interests. She is president of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS) and editor of its journal.

Together they published Religion, Migration, and Identity. Methodological and Theological Explorations (Leiden: Brill, 2017) and World Christianity. Methodological Considerations (Leiden: Brill, 2020).