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Missionary Spaces: Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1840-1960

by Thomas Coomans
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789462701441
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Leuven University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 65.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1679 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Buildings / Religious

Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it.

Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the 'spatial turn' for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own.

This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan.

Contributors: Leon Bouwmeester, Lawrence Braschi, Bram Cleys, Thomas Coomans, Céline Frémaux, Johan Lagae, Maarten Onneweer, Alexis B. Tengan

Thomas Coomans is an architectural historian, professor at the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven, and program director of the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation.

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