Mission History Research Papers - Academia.edu (original) (raw)
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Recent papers in Mission History
- by Mehmet Ali Doğan and +1
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- Christianity, History, American History, Cultural History
Recent historiography has rediscovered Christian missions as sites of entangled history including various forms of cultural othering connected to missionary work in the mission fields and in the European metropoles. However, a very... more
Recent historiography has rediscovered Christian missions as sites of entangled history including various forms of cultural othering connected to missionary work in the mission fields and in the European metropoles. However, a very distinctive aspect of missions' contribution to the entangled histories of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas has received less scrutiny. I argue that missionary media and communication are set to become a central field of mission historiography and a prime tool of imperial entanglement in the 19th and 20th centuries. The article presents theoretical concepts from postcolonial and media studies as well as the history of emotions to lay out a path for further examination. The viability of the approach is demonstrated by a case study: It focuses the coverage in German Catholic missionary media of a violent incident in the Kingdom of Buganda 1886, during which King Mwanga ordered the killing of 31 Christian members of his court: almost immediately after the event, the dead became known as the "martyrs of Uganda".