Missions and Missionaries

by Holtrop, Pieter; McLeod, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9780952973362
• ISBN10: 0952973367
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc

Summary

Christianity is a very successful missionary religion: no other religion has ever spread to so many parts of the globe, or won converts among so many different peoples. This book looks at the men and women who dedicated their lives to spreading their faith, the key figures in the process, and organisations which planned it. It begins in the sixth and seventh centuries when England and the Netherlands were the mission fields, taking up the story again in the seventeenth century, but the main focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when missions flourished. Some chapters look at strategists in Europe and North America, others at missionaries in Hong Kong, Kenya, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Middle East. Topics of particular interest include the relationship between missionaries and colonial governments and between missionaries and indigenous Christians, the impact of new theologies, and the growing importance of women in modern missions. As a whole, the book illuminates the day to day experiences of individual missionaries, while placing them within a wider framework of political, social, and intellectual change. Professor PIETER N. HOLTROP teaches at the Theologische Universiteit, Kampen; Professor HUGH McLEOD teaches in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham.Contributors: ANNA MARIA LUISELLI FADDA, EUGENE HONÉE, HENDRIK E. NIEMEIJER, KATE LOWE, JORIS VAN EIJNATTEN, ANDREW PORTER, H.L. MURRE-VAN DEN BERG, GUUS BOONE, BRIAN STANLEY, PIETER N. HOLTROP, RACHEL A. RAKOTONIRINA, MYRTLE HILL, LIESBETH LABBEKE, JOHN CASSON

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Editors' Preface	ix
List of Abbreviations	x
The Vernacular and the Propagation of the Faith in Anglo-Saxon Missionary Activity	1	(15)
Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda
St Willibrord in Recent Historiography	16	(16)
Eugene Honne
Political Rivalry and Early Dutch Reformed Missions in Seventeeth-Century North Sulawesi (Celebes)	32	(18)
Hendrik E. Niemeijer
The Beliefs, Aspirations and Methods of the First Missionaries in British Hong Kong, 1841-5	50	(15)
Kate Lowe
Civilizing the Kingdom: Missionary Objectives and the Dutch Public Sphere Around 1800	65	(16)
Joris Van Eijnatten
Language, `Native Agency', and Missionary Control: Rufus Anderson's Journey to India, 1854-5	81	(17)
Andrew Porter
Why Protestant Churches? The American Board and the Eastern Churches: Mission among `Nominal' Christians (1820-70)	98	(14)
H.L. Murre-Van Den Berg
Modernism and Mission: The Influence of Dutch Modern Theology on Missionary Practice in the East Indies in the Nineteenth Century	112	(15)
Guus Boone
`Hunting for Souls': The Missionary Pilgrimage of George Sherwood Eddy	127	(15)
Brian Stanley
The Governor a Missionary? Dutch Colonial Rule and Christianization during Idenburg's Term of Office as Governor of Indonesia (1909-16)	142	(15)
Pieter N. Holtrop
Re-reading Missionary Publications: The Case of European and Malagasy Martyrologies, 1837-1937	157	(13)
Rachel A. Rakotonirina
Women in the Irish Protestant Foreign Missions c. 1873-1914: Representations and Motivations	170	(16)
Myrtle Hill
`There is so much involved...' The Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles Borromeo in Indonesia in the Period from the Second World War	186	(14)
Liesbeth Labbeke
Missionaries, Mau Mau and the Christian Frontier	200	(17)
John Casson
Index	217