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Constructing mission history : missionary initiative and indigenous agency in the making of world Christianity / Stanley H. Skreslet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis ; Fortress Press , 2023.Description: xi, 462 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781506481890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BV 2100 .S57 2023
Contents:
Introduction: Setting the problem -- Part One: The three drivers of missionary initiative in the modern era -- 1. Mediating salvation -- 2. Knowledge-sharing -- 3. Practicing benevolence -- Part Two: A selection of performance patterns -- 4. Power encounters -- 5. Constructing Christianopolis -- 6. Vernacular Christianities -- 7. Subversive witnessing -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.
Summary: "Challenging other narratives of mission history, Stanley H. Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time."--Page 4 of cover.
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation BV 2100 .S57 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available T17293W3232
Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation BV 2100 .S57 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available T17292W3232

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-443) and index.

Introduction: Setting the problem -- Part One: The three drivers of missionary initiative in the modern era -- 1. Mediating salvation -- 2. Knowledge-sharing -- 3. Practicing benevolence -- Part Two: A selection of performance patterns -- 4. Power encounters -- 5. Constructing Christianopolis -- 6. Vernacular Christianities -- 7. Subversive witnessing -- Conclusion -- Epilogue.

"Challenging other narratives of mission history, Stanley H. Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time."--Page 4 of cover.

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