Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions
Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions by J. Scott, published by Palgrave Macmillan US on June 15, 2005, offers a comprehensive examination of missions and their connections to European colonialism and its postcolonial consequences. This collection of essays delves into the spread of Christianity, exploring various dimensions such as anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical aspects of mission enterprises. The book addresses diverse topics, including the impact of mission printing on traditional African life and the influence of missions on dress styles in India.
Readers will find an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on the textual and material aspects of missions but also includes analyses of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. With 268 pages, this edition serves as a valuable resource for scholars in postcolonial and cultural studies, as well as mission studies, and can be utilized effectively as a teaching tool.
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This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths’ earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott’s well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .
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