Christian Encounters with the Other Contributor(s): Hawley, John C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814735681 ISBN-13: 9780814735688 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1998 Annotation: Why does Christianity feel the need to impose its customs and beliefs on the rest of the world? And why has an impulse driven at least partially by sincere concern for the "salvation" of others so often played into the hands of ruthless colonizers with more cynical aims? Bringing together scholars in literature, history, and religion, Christian Encounters with the Other Approaches these questions by analyzing literary accounts of historically famous sites of conversion. Covering the Renaissance through to the present and spanning much of the globe, the volume discusses a range of authors and their works--from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Stephen Riggs's ethnographic representations of the Sioux, to Salvation Army pamphleteers and Victorian missionaries, to China, to the works of Cameroonian novelist Mongo Beti, Guatemalan Nobel laureate Rigoberta Mench, and Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo. Using a cultural studies approach, each account discusses the missionaries' intentions, how these were perceived, and what social forces helped to shape the messages that were preached, as well as fascinating accounts of counter-conversions, in which "the other" is not only exoticized but valorized and empowered.
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions |
Dewey: 266 |
LCCN: 97025273 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
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Publisher Description: Why does Christianity feel the need to impose its customs and beliefs on the rest of the world? And why has an impulse driven at least partially by sincere concern for the salvation of others so often played into the hands of ruthless colonizers with more cynical aims? |
Contributor Bio(s): Hawley, John C.: - John C. Hawley is Associate Professor of English at Santa Clara University. He is the editor of several books, including Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Colonial Borders and Writing the Nation: Self and Country in Postcolonial Imagination. |