Reporting Christian Missions in the Eighteenth Century
Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-Confessional Perspective
edited by Markus Friedrich and Alexander Schunka
Regular reporting on extra-European Christian missions was a distinctive feature of the early modern era, changing the worldviews of Europe and Europeans. The present collection of essays offers an innovative approach to this phenomenon by comparing different missionary publications from a cross-confessional perspective. It establishes a broader framework for understanding the organized and institutionalized transfers of knowledge from the missions to Europe. Contributions by various international specialists to such hallmarks of European Enlightenment as the Hallesche Berichte and the Jesuit Lettres Edifiantes along with less famous examples as the Circular Letters of the British missionary societies (SPCK, SPG) or the Gemeinnachrichten of the Moravian Brethren not only analyze the content but also the technologies and procedures employed to spread information. The volume discusses the comparability of the different missionary periodicals from the vantage point of cultural history. It emphasizes the importance of regular publishing of missionary activities for the fashioning and strengthening of religious identities, against the backdrop of an evolving ‘Public Sphere’ in the Enlightenment and the formation of increasingly globalized cultures of knowledge in Europe.
- Edited by Markus Friedrich
- Edited by Alexander Schunka
Other Titles in this Series
Heinrich von Huyssen (1666-1739)
Prinzenerzieher, Diplomat und Publizist in den Diensten Zar Peters I., des Grossen
Volume 3
Die Protestanten in Polen-Litauen (1696-1763)
Rechtliche Lage, Organisation und Beziehungen zwischen den evangelischen Glaubensgemeinschaften
Volume 2
Konfessionelle Geschichtsschreibung im Umfeld der Bohmischen Bruder (1500-1800)
Traditionen - Akteure - Praktiken
Volume 11
Zwischen Dorpat, Pressburg und Wien
Jan Kvacala und die Anfange der Jablonski-Forschung in Ostmitteleuropa um 1900
Studien zur Wissenschafts- und Bildungsgeschichte in Deutschland um 1700
Gelehrte Sozietaten - Universitaten - Hofe und Schulen. Herausgegeben von Joachim Bahlcke und Mona Garloff
Volume 5
Kirchliche Historiographie zwischen Wissenschaft und religioser Sinnstiftung
David Cranz (1723-1777) als Geschichtsschreiber der Erneuerten Bruder-Unitat
Volume 6
Glaubenssolidaritat im Zeichen des Pietismus
Der wurttembergische Theologe Georg Konrad Rieger (1687-1743) und seine Kirchengeschichtsschreibung zu den Bohmischen Brudern
Volume 7
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