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in: Eyk Henze (Hg.): Flachware 4. Jahrbuch der Leipziger Buchwissenschaft, Stuttgart 2018, S. 107-121
Critical comments from one member of the Siamese elite in the second half of the nine- teenth century on the merits of the form of government of the United States of America published in a newspaper called Bangkok Recorder led to the... more
This article problematizes the concept of ‘mission’ in international interventions, who is entitled to missionize and how the missionized subject is conceptualized. By looking at the international missions in Kosovo (those of the UN and... more
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of... more
Espoir utopique d’une période, le thème de la « conversion de l’Angleterre » a structuré de nombreuses initiatives missionnaires du catholicisme anglais entre les années 1830 et 1990. Le présent article s’intéresse plus particulièrement à... more
Frédéric Laugrand and Gilles Havard (eds)
This is a paper about the role of religion in the practice of humanitarian/devel- opment work, and the role of humanitarian/development work in the practice of religion. It contends that these are overlapping and indeed mutually... more
Anand Amaladass SJ, "Mission der Kirche definiert von der Kultur eines Missionslandes: Am Beispiel eines missverstandenen Genies in der Missionsgeschichte Indiens: Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656)" in Glaube in der Welt von Heute: Theologie... more
The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which working-class Kānaka Hawai’i (Native Hawaiian) immigrants in the nineteenth century repurposed and repackaged precontact Hawai’i strategies of accommodation and resistance in... more
For today’s Namibia the dealing with its own past is still relevant, as well as for other former colonies. In this context, the experiences of the colonial era still play an important role, which is closely related to the struggle for... more
In this chapter, I will discuss the use of visual representations or photographic descriptions by the missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) as proofs of their proselytizing efforts. More... more
The Dutch scholar Karel Steenbrink, Professor Emeritus of Intercultural Theology at Utrecht University, published three volumes on Catholics in Indonesia. A documented history. The first volume appeared in 2003 and treats the period from... more
Although Switzerland was never formally a colonial power, it was attached to many quasi-colonies such as settlements of Swiss missionary societies, which were financed and managed with money, personnel, and ideas from Switzerland.... more
Sir George Williams had a profound impact on the youth and business people of the 19th century. Out of this renewal movement was birthed the YMCA movement which has reached around the globe. This article explores the faith and values... more
The failure of successive New Zealand regimes, both local and central government, to commemorate the true story of what happened in the modest Taranaki township of Waitara, resulting in two decades of devastation underscored by events at... more
This paper explores how the Canadian missionaries had been influenced by the WWII crisis in 1938-39 before the large-scale international support appeared for China’s resistance of the Japanese invasion, which happened only after the Pearl... more
The widely renowned Bandel Basilica1 or the Basilica of the Holy Rosary located on the banks of river Hooghly is the oldest church2 in the region of eastern India, which came into being as a result of the Portuguese settlement in Hooghly... more
Missionary efforts on the Indonesian began in the early nineteenth century. The conversion to Christianity was linked to a reinterpretation of indigenous worship practices and cultural norms by the missionaries.
This essay reappraises the origins of French Quakerism based on new archival research conducted on both sides of the Channel. It identifies 34 Quaker missionaries in 17th- and early 18C France, sheds new light on the French reception of... more
In "Pastoraltheologie" 100/4 (2011): 215-226
In "Theology Today" 71/2 (2014):178-191.
This monograph narrates the history of catholic mission in East Africa and Germany during the colonial period featuring chapters on the missionary movement in 19th and 20th c. Germany, the negotiation of a missiony contact zone, education... more
Explloring the missionaries’ influence on the modernization of medical services in Hangzhou, China
The prism of professionals and their professional associations has provided scholarship with an entry point to interrogate the complex social dynamics that existed in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China. Much of this work,... more
Dr. E Stanley Jones through his Kingdom of God perspective had a lasting impact on racism both in India and North America. Through his formation in India of the Christian Ashram movement in 1930 and transplanting it worldwide, Jones... more
A brief history of the Korea Bible Club Movement, by Eileen F. Moffett.
Materials and observations gathered during the Second Kamchatka Expedition (1734-1743) then composed by G.F. Müller make up two foundational works, which describe Muslim everyday life, belief and practices, and quantitative data on the... more
A detailed formal and contextual analysis of the architecture of Bishop's House and previously St. Paul's College on Inland Lot 7360, 1 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong.
The idea that certain iTaukei (formerly ‘Fijian’) clans are descended from the Jews, particularly through a Lost Tribe of Israel, is very strong among some contemporary clans and church groups in Fiji. The importance of the Lost Tribes... more
Avec Londres et Paris, Bâle constitua, à partir du milieu du 19ème siècle, l'un des « centres » de la première diaspora africaine en Europe de l'Ouest. Toutefois, l'origine de cette étonnante présence d'Africains à Bâle n'est pas due aux... more
筆者為《皕載英華》(香港: 三聯書店, 2018) 一書的第一部,第一章〈馬氏始創 等待中華〉,第二章〈米憐掌校 身教口傳〉及第三章〈呷地立足 化雨春風〉(頁88-232) 的作者。有興趣者可於本頁每一章的條目裏下載該章的一些頁面。欲閲讀全文可往香港公共圖書館及港大圖書館等借閲,亦可透過三聯書店,商務書店等各大書店的門市部或網上書店訂購。
The Russian Orthodox mission to Alaska can be understood in terms of liberative mission. The article shows how the missionaries succeeded in allowing Christianity to become indigenized in native Alaskan cultures, rather than attempting to... more
This edited collection brings together interdisciplinary scholars from history, theology, folklore, ethnology and meteorology to examine how David Cranz’s Historie von Grönland (1765) resonated in various disciplines, periods and... more