EAN: 9783447108256

REPORTING CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN THE EIGHTEENTH ...

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 Édifiantes 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.

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