Missionary Spaces : Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1830s-1960s
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| Title: | Missionary Spaces : Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1830s-1960s |
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| Description: | The ‘spatial turn'of missionary places Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it. Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the ‘spatial turn'for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own. This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan. Contributors: Leon Bouwmeester (KU Leuven), Lawrence Braschi (Church of England), Bram Cleys (MAS | Museum aan de Stroom), Thomas Coomans (KU Leuven), Céline Frémaux (French Guyana), Johan Lagae (UGent), Maarten Onneweer (AidEnvironment), Alexis B. Tengan (independent scholar) This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Look inside and read the introduction > |
| Authors: | Thomas Coomans |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Church architecture, Religious architecture, Missions--20th century, Missions--19th century |
| Categories: | RELIGION / History, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism |
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