Missionary Spaces
Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1840-1960
Missionary Spaces
Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1840-1960
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Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789462701441
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 01/03/2024
Width: 22.5 cm
Height: 28 cm
Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history, and colonial architecture, the contributions in this volume investigate the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By looking at specific architectural fragments, analysing the insertion of Christian edifices in colonial urban settings, or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each of the chapters contemplates an aspect of the agency of mission spaces.
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, this book approaches missionary places not as the mere d cor against which the missionary encounter was enacted, but as an integral part of it. In doing so, the contributors test the applicability of the spatial turn, an interpretative paradigm that has been dominant across the humanities since the late 1990s, to missionary historiography.
Richly illustrated and with a global focus, the volume addresses case studies from, among other countries, China, Japan, Madagascar, Congo, Tanzania, Ghana, and Lebanon.
INTRODUCTION
Imagining, Building, Contesting Missionary Spaces
Thomas Coomans
PART ONE – IMAGINED WORLD / ADAPTED STRATEGIES
1 Spatial Trajectories and Missionary and Colonial Movements into Northwest Ghana since 1929: Dagara Reception of Catholic Missionary Activities
Alexis B. Tengan
2 Redeeming Ukamba: Word and World, 1893-1905
Maarten Onneweer
3 Islands on the Mainland: Catholic Missions and Spatial Strategies in China, 1840s-1940s
Thomas Coomans
4 Co-authoring the City: Missionaries and the Colonial City of Luluaburg (Belgian Congo), 1930-1960
Bram Cleys
5 The Catholic Territorialization of Taiwan: Vatican Global Strategy and Franciscan Local Parishes, 1949-1960s
Leon Bouwmeester and Thomas Coomans
PART TWO – UNIVERSAL PROJECTS / LOCALIZED ARCHITECTURES
6 Gendered Spaces in Catholic Compounds of Late Qing China
Thomas Coomans
7 Gender-Designed Catholic Churches in North China, 1830s-1920s
Thomas Coomans
8 The Missionaries in the Cosmopolitan Towns of the Suez Isthmus, Egypt: Their Role in the Formation of Identity in Architecture and Urban Planning, 1860-1937
Céline Frémaux
9 Civilizing Space in West China: Re-examining the Place of the Christian University in Chengdu, 1909-1933
Lawrence Braschi
10 A Highly ‘Mediated Monument’ of Tropical Modernism in Central Africa: Unpacking the Complex Agendas behind the Design and Construction of the Collège du Saint-Esprit in Bujumbura, Burundi
Johan Lagae
Abbreviations
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Authors
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