Power and Knowledge in Mission Historiography: A Postcolonial Approach to Martyrological Texts on...
Examines the way in which power and knowledge collude and collide in mission texts on Madagascar in 1837-1937. Trends influencing the writing of mission history; Evolutionary nature of the martyrological discourse; Trend of denigrating traditional culture and religion; Internal exceptions and exter...
| Publicado en: | Studies in World Christianity Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 156 - 177 |
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Edinburgh University Press
1999
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| Sumario: | Examines the way in which power and knowledge collude and collide in mission texts on Madagascar in 1837-1937. Trends influencing the writing of mission history; Evolutionary nature of the martyrological discourse; Trend of denigrating traditional culture and religion; Internal exceptions and external resistance to dominant discourse images. |
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