Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission

Product Description


This selection of texts introduces students and researchers to the multi\- and interdisciplinary field of mission history. The four parts of this book acquaint the readers with methodological considerations and recurring themes in the academic study of the history of mission. Part one revolves around methods, part two documents approaches, while parts three and four consist of thematic clusters, such as mission and language, medical mission, mission and education, women and mission, mission and politics, and mission and art.
Critical Readings in the History of Christian Mission is suitable for course\-work and other educational purposes.


About the Author


Martha Frederiks is Professor for the Study of World Christianity at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is a contributing editor of the series
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History (Leiden: Brill), co-editor of
Studies in the Intercultural History of Christianity and with Lucien van Liere editor-in-chief of
Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context (Leiden: Brill).


Dorottya Nagy is Professor of Missiology at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam (PThU). Migration studies and awareness for responsible methodology lays at the heart of her academic interests. She is president of the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies (CEEAMS) and editor of its journal. Together they published
Religion, Migration, and Identity. Methodological and Theological Explorations (Leiden: Brill, 2017) and
World Christianity. Methodological Considerations (Leiden: Brill, 2020).