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European Missions in Contact Zones: Transformation through Interaction in a (Post-)Colonial World
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Abstract What happens when people of different cultural, religious, political and social backgrounds live in close contact with each other? This volume focuses on the encounter between European missionaries and indigenous people and aims to illuminate how life in a contact zone changed concepts, attitudes an... view more
What happens when people of different cultural, religious, political and social backgrounds live in close contact with each other? This volume focuses on the encounter between European missionaries and indigenous people and aims to illuminate how life in a contact zone changed concepts, attitudes and practices. It collects examples from nearly all world regions from early modern times to the middle of the twentieth century.The contributions discuss the concept of contact zones", defining them both as spaces where people of different backgrounds actually met and as "imagined contact zones" between European Christians and those living abroad who insisted on forming one community and thus exchanged ideas, and as "personalised contact zones" in individuals who transcended boundaries and integrated different backgrounds and attitudes. In each case people, concepts and attitudes changed in the encounter. Practices were modified and new practices emerged. Values and conceptions were transformed. When individuals embodied the contact, however, they often were expelled from the contact zone, especially when they were not recognised as "European". The volume thus also sheds light on the limits of the contact. By focusing on the results of the intercultural encounter, however, it mainly demonstrates the impact of life in a contact zone on those involved."... view less
Keywords
history of religion; Christianity; missionary; European; indigenous peoples; cross-culturality; historical development
Classification
General History
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
Interkulturalität; Kulturkontakte; Geschichte 1700-1970
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
City
Göttingen
Page/Pages
293 p.
Series
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Beihefte, 107
DOI
https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666101410
ISSN
2197-1056
ISBN
978-3-666-10141-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed