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9780802865243

Light on Darkness?: Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

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    9780802865243

  • ISBN10:

    0802865240

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-04-30
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary

These volumes explore the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Bringing together monographs by established and emerging scholars, collections of essays on themes in the history of missions, and new editions of seminal primary texts, this series provides rich source material for studying the relation between religion and culture.

Author Biography

T. Jack Thompson is former director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His other books include Images of Africa and Christianity in Northern Malawi.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. x
Photo Sourcesp. xiii
List of Photographsp. xv
Introductionp. 1
The Beginnings of Photographyp. 18
The Photographer and the Artist: Visual Representation on Livingstone's Zambezi Expeditionp. 56
'Dr. Livingstone, I Presume': Visual Representations of Stanley's Expedition to 'Find' Livingstonep. 98
Creating an Africa for Africans? Scottish Missions in South Africa and Malawip. 135
The Camera and the Congo: Missionary Photography and Leopold's Atrocitiesp. 165
Missionaries and the Magic Lanternp. 207
New Ways of Seeing: Radical Missionaries and Critical Theoriesp. 239
Bibliographyp. 276
Indexp. 283
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