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Networks of Knowledge
Epistemic Entanglement initiated by American Protestant Missionary Presence in Nineteenth-Century Syria, Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv 28
ISBN/EAN: 9783515119689
Umbreit-Nr.: 5500274
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 208 S., 15 s/w Illustr., 15 s/w Fotos
Format in cm: 1.3 x 24 x 17
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 18.09.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
- Zusatztext
- American protestant missionaries, sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, initiated transcultural knowledge to Ottoman Syria. This book focusses on the generation of that knowledge involving local people from 1820 until the end of the nineteenth century. It includes the study of secularity, the formation of knowledge on topography and particularly biblical topography, networking between academic societies, the development of a font of type for printing in Arabic and the introduction of journals in Arabic language. The material and analysis presented illustrate how modernity became a global phenomenon and who "owns" modernity.
- Autorenportrait
- Andreas Feldtkeller, geb. 1961, Lehrstuhlinhaber für Religions- und Missionswissenschaft sowie Ökumenik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Vorsitzender der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missionsgeschichte.