The Missionary Movement in African and World History
Mission Sources and Religious Encounter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Maxwell (0000-0002-1701-5917, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 901-930 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-29 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x15000084 |
| OpenAlex | W2517583191 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article is a revised and expanded version of my inaugural lecture as Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, delivered on 12 March 2014. It highlights the evolution of Ecclesiastical History to include the study of Christianity in the global south and shows how recent developments in the study of African and world history have produced a dynamic and multi-faceted model of religious encounter, an encounter which includes the agency of indigenous Christians alongside the activities of missionaries. Investigating the contribution of faith missionaries to the production of colonial knowledge in Belgian Congo, the article challenges stereotypes about the relations between Pentecostalism and modernity, and between mission and empire. Throughout, consideration is given to the range of missionary sources, textual, visual, and material, and their utility in reconstructing social differentiation in African societies, particularly in revealing indigenous African criticism of ‘custom’
Agency (philosophy · Ancient history · Archaeology · Christianity · Colonialism · Criticism · Empire · Ethnology · Faith · Indigenous · Modernity · Political science · Religious conversion · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies
Sexual Health, Morality and the Missionary Press in Britain and the South Pacific, 1795–1850
Missions, Education and Conversion in Colonial Africa
La porteuse de coupe luba du don Labrique
Forbidden Revolutions
Entanglement” as a concept in recent research on Christian missions in the South Pacific and Africa
Introduction
Non-European Teachers in Mission Schools
An Imperial Apostle? St Paul, Protestant Conversion, and South Asian Christianity
Word Made Flesh
History and Africa/Africa and History
Language, Empire and the World
Dan Crawford , Thinking Black, and The Challenge of a Missionary Canon
History and Africa/Africa and History
Freed Slaves, Missionaries, and Respectability
The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Late Ottoman Beirut
African Christian Studies, 1967-1999
Criminal Secrecy
Religious Movements and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Missionary as an Anthropological Field-Worker
Oral literature in Lubaland
Photography and the Religious Encounter
Contradictions between the Sacred and the Secular Life
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |