" One of the best portrayals of life in Europe and the Islamic world during the medieval Great
Plague.... Watts offers solid, stunning examples of Western idiocy that created …

There have been plenty of polemics, historical analyses, and contemporary accounts of
missionary activity by authors suggesting that there was an intimate, inevitable connection …

Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how
scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book changes this narrative by …

Christianity and Public Culture in Africa takes the reader beyond Africa's apparent
exceptionalism. African Christians have created new publics, often in ways that offer fresh …

Volunteer tourism has received increased attention from academics in recent years,
mirroring the growth in providers and participation. Volunteer tourism is often considered to …

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi,
who came to see Europeans as learners in Africa, this innovative book narrates the rise and …

This chapter reviews changing approaches to the anthropological, historical, and
archaeological study of ethnicity'and some of the more relevant insights from ethno …

Each volume of the Understanding World Christianity series analyzes the state of
Christianity from six different angles. The focus is always Christianity, but it is approached in …

The book is an English translation of an award winning German book. The history of social
and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating …

In this pioneering study, historian Andreana Prichard presents an intimate history of a single
mission organization, the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA), told through the …