Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Unto the Ends of the World: 40 (Studies in Christian Mission, 40) - Hardcover

Hilde Nielssen; Inger Marie Okkenhaug; Karina Hestad-Skeie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004202986 ISBN 13: 9789004202986

Publisher: BRILL, 2011

Synopsis

This book makes visible an important but neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. Missionaries considered themselves global actors, yet they operated within a variety of nation-states. The volume demonstrates how processes on a national level are closely linked to larger transnational processes.

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Hilde Nielssen, Dr. Polit. (2004) in Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, researcher at the Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aesthetic Studies at University of Bergen. Her research ranges from museums and colonial culture to spirit possession rituals in Madagascar, and her publications include Ritual Imagination. Tromba possession among the Betsimisaraka of Eastern Madagascar (Brill, forthcoming 2011).
Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ph.D., associate professor in history at Volda University College. She has co-edited several volumes and is the author of one book and numerous articles on women, missions and welfare in the Middle East. Her current research deals with missions, gender and relief in Armenia, Turkey and Syria, 1900-1950.
Karina Hestad Skeie, Dr. Art. (2005) in History of Religions, University of Oslo, Associate Professor in Intercultural Studies at NLA University College, Bergen. She works on religion and mission in Madagascar and Norway. Her publications include Building God's Kingdom in Highland Madagascar (Brill, forthcoming 2011).

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004202986
• ISBN 13: 9789004202986
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348