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Mission & Science Missiology Revised / Missiologie revisitée, 1850â1940
Title
Mission & Science [electronic resource] : Missiology Revised / Missiologie revisitée, 1850â1940 / Carine Dujardin & Claude Prudhomme, eds.
ISBN
9789461662125
9789462700345
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (437 pages)).
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Contributions in English or French ; introduction and conclusion in both English and French.
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Summary
The relationship between religion and science is complex and continues to be a topical issue. However, it is seldom zoomed in on from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. By doing so the contributing authors in this collection gain new insights into the origin and development of missiology. Missiology is described in this book as a "project of modernity," a contemporary form of apologetics. "Scientific apologetics" was the way to justify missions in a society that was rapidly becoming secularized. Mission & Science deals with the interaction between new scientific disciplines (historiography, geography, ethnology, anthropology, linguistics) and new scientific insights (Darwin's evolutionary theory, heliocentrism), as well as the role of the papacy and what inspired missionary practice (first in China and the Far East and later in Africa). The renewed missiology has in turn influenced the missionary practice of the twentieth century, guided by apostolic policy. Some "missionary scholars" have even had a significant influence on the scientific discourse of their time.
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Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VI.
Project MUSE - Archive Philosophy and Religion Supplement VI.
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Books / Online
Language
English; French
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2018
Series
KADOC studies on religion, culture and society ; 16
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-426) and index.
Contents
Introduction. Mission research revised : missiology as a project of modernity and a contemporary form of apologetics / Carine Dujardin
I. The emergence of Protestant and Catholic mission study
II. Missionaries and science
III. Theory versus practice
Conclusion / Claude Prudhomme.
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