Missionary Interests
Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Published on 15. April 2024
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Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-5017-7443-0 (ISBN)
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In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith. Despite their sectarian differences, both groups of missionaries shared notions of dividing the world categorically along the lines of race, status, and relative exoticism, and both employed humanitarian outreach with designs to proselytize.
American missionaries occupied liminal spaces: between proselytizer and proselytized, feminine and masculine, colonizer and colonized. Taken together, the chapters in Missionary Interests dismantle easy characterizations of missions and conversion and offer an overlooked juxtaposition between Mormon and Protestant missionary efforts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
American missionaries occupied liminal spaces: between proselytizer and proselytized, feminine and masculine, colonizer and colonized. Taken together, the chapters in Missionary Interests dismantle easy characterizations of missions and conversion and offer an overlooked juxtaposition between Mormon and Protestant missionary efforts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
18 b&w halftones - 18 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-7443-0 (9781501774430)
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David Golding | Christopher Cannon Jones
Missionary Interests
Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Cornell University Press
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Persons
David Golding is a historian of Mormonism and missions. His publications have previously appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender and World Religions and Their Missions.
Christopher Cannon Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University.
Christopher Cannon Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University.
Content
Introduction
1. Heathen Landscapes: Of Souls and Soils
2. Before "Woman's Work for Woman": Protestant Missionary Applications and Gender
3. Humanitarian Encounter in Late Ottoman Turkey: State, American Protestant Missionaries, and the Christian Herald Armenian Relief Fund
4. Dueling Orientalisms: The Scottish Imagination in the MormonMissionary Mind
5. Shoshone Worlds, Bannock Zions: Protestant and Latter-day Saint Missionary Work among the Shoshone and Bannock
6. Traveling Elders: The Latter-day Saint Gaze on Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
7. Earthquakes, Mudslides, and Hurricanes: Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in Evangelical Missionary Strategy
8. Inventing Rupture in India and America: Adivasi Converts, Hindu Nationalists, and American RLDS Missionaries, 1966-1996
9. Technological Christianity: Transferring Processes, Forms, and Organizational Tools within Global Missionary Encounters
10. Missing Missiology: Latter-day Saint Missionary Pragmatism and the Search for Scholarship
11. American Missionaries and the Struggle for Control ofChristianity's Symbolic Capital
1. Heathen Landscapes: Of Souls and Soils
2. Before "Woman's Work for Woman": Protestant Missionary Applications and Gender
3. Humanitarian Encounter in Late Ottoman Turkey: State, American Protestant Missionaries, and the Christian Herald Armenian Relief Fund
4. Dueling Orientalisms: The Scottish Imagination in the MormonMissionary Mind
5. Shoshone Worlds, Bannock Zions: Protestant and Latter-day Saint Missionary Work among the Shoshone and Bannock
6. Traveling Elders: The Latter-day Saint Gaze on Africa in the Early Twentieth Century
7. Earthquakes, Mudslides, and Hurricanes: Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in Evangelical Missionary Strategy
8. Inventing Rupture in India and America: Adivasi Converts, Hindu Nationalists, and American RLDS Missionaries, 1966-1996
9. Technological Christianity: Transferring Processes, Forms, and Organizational Tools within Global Missionary Encounters
10. Missing Missiology: Latter-day Saint Missionary Pragmatism and the Search for Scholarship
11. American Missionaries and the Struggle for Control ofChristianity's Symbolic Capital