Becker / Stanley Europe as the Other

External Perspectives on European Christianity
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-647-10131-6
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 277 Seiten

Reihe: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz

There has been much academic debate over recent years on Europe defining itself over against the 'Other.' This volume asks from the opposite perspective: What views did non-Europeans hold of 'European Christianity'? In this way, the volume turns the agency of definition over to non-Europeans. Over the last centuries, the contacts between Europeans and non-Europeans have been diverse and complex. Non-Europeans encountered Europeans as colonialists, traders, missionaries and travellers. Most of those Europeans were Christians or were perceived as Christians. Therefore, in terms of religion Europe was often identified with Christianity. Europeans thus also conveyed a certain image of Christianity to non-European countries. At the same time, non-Europeans increasingly travelled to Europe and experienced a kind of Christianity that often did not conform to the picture they had formed earlier. Their descriptions of European Christianity ranged from sympathetic acceptance to harsh criticism. The contributions in this volume reveal the breadth of these opinions. They also show that there is no clear line of division between 'insiders' and 'outsiders', but that Europeans could sometimes perceive themselves as being 'outsiders' in their own culture while non-Europeans could adopt 'insider' perspectives. Furthermore, from these encounters new religious and cultural expressions could emerge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Becker, Judith

Stanley, Brian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Becker, Judith

Stanley, Brian

Klein, Thoralf

Ustorf, Werner

Walls, Andrew F.

Azamede, Kokou

Cox, Jeffrey L.

Frederiks, Martha Th.

Killingray, David

Kim, Sebastian

Tiedemann, R. G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover
;1
2;Title Page
;4
3;Copyright
;5
4;Table of Contents
;8
5;Body
;10
6;Judith Becker and Brian Stanley: Introduction. Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity;10
7;Judith Becker: What was European about Christianity? Early Nineteenth-Century Missionaries’ Perceptions;30
8;Werner Ustorf: Disentangling the Christian and the European (1890s to the 1930s). Five Voices from the Margin;54
9;Sebastian C. H. Kim: Pyongin pakhae and Western Imperial Aggression in Korea. Changing Perception of Western Christianity in the Late Choson Dynasty;74
10;R. G. Tiedemann: Changing Chinese Perspectives on Western Christianity During the Transition from Culturalism to Nationalism;94
11;Thoralf Klein: The Missionary as Devil. Anti-Missionary Demonology in China, 1860–1930;120
12;Jeffrey Cox: Sing Unto the Lord a New Song. Transcending the Western/Indigenous Binary in Punjabi Christian Hymnody;150
13;David Killingray: Godly Examples and Christian Agents. Training African Missionary Workers in British Institutions in the Nineteenth Century;166
14;Kokou Azamede: Reactions of African Converts to Christianity, Particularly of Those Who Visited Europe. The Case of the North German Mission’s Assistants in West Africa ;198
15;Martha Th. Frederiks: Ottobah Cugoano, Son of Africa. An Angry African Abolitionist Voice;220
16;Andrew F. Walls: Distinguished Visitors. Tiyo Soga and Behari Lal Singh in Europe and at Home;244
17;Bibliography;256
18;List of Illustrations;272
19;List of Contributors ;274
20;Back Cover
;282

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley, Brian
Brian Stanley read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and stayed on in Cambridge for his PhD on the place of missionary enthusiasm in Victorian religion. He has taught in theological colleges and universities in London, Bristol, and Cambridge, and from 1996 to 2001 was Director of the Currents in World Christianity Project in the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2008, and joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2009.

Stanley, Brian
Brian Stanley read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and stayed on in Cambridge for his PhD on the place of missionary enthusiasm in Victorian religion. He has taught in theological colleges and universities in London, Bristol, and Cambridge, and from 1996 to 2001 was Director of the Currents in World Christianity Project in the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2008, and joined the University of Edinburgh in January 2009.

Ustorf, Werner
Dr. theol. Werner Ustorf is Professor of Mission Studies in Birmingham.

Becker, Judith
Dr. theol. habil. Judith Becker ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz.

Becker, Judith
Dr. theol. habil. Judith Becker ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz.