Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions

Part One. Protestant Missions, Texts, and Contexts

1. Master Narratives of Imperial Missions
Jeffrey Cox

2. Inventing the World: Transnationalism, Transmission, and Christian Textualities
Isabel Hofmeyr

3. The Missionary Writing Machine in Nineteenth-Century Kwazulu-Natal
Norman Etherington

4. Popular Imperial Adventure Fiction and the Discourse of Missionary Texts
Gareth Gnjfiths

5. Books and Bodices: Material Culture and Protestant Missions in Colonial South India
Eliza F. Kent

6. Landscapes of Faith: British Missionary Tourism in the South Pacific
Jane Samson

7. Penitential and Penitentiary: Native Canadians and Colonial Mission Education
Jamie S. Scott

Part Two. World Religions, Global Missions

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Da‘Wa In The West: Islamic Mission in American Form
Jane I. Smith

9. The Spread of Buddhism in The West: Missionary work and the Pattern of Religious Diffusion
James William Coleman

10. “In Every Town, Country and Village my Name Will Be Sung”: Hindu Missions in India and Abroad
Klaus K. Klostermaier

11. Articles of Faith: International Relations and “Missionary” Scholarship
Marshall J. Beier

12. Afterword: Global Conversions
Peter Veer

Avainsanat: Religious Studies, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Philosophy, general