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Christian Encounters with the Other

Christian Encounters with the Other

Hawley, John C.

Paperback

Christian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 081473569X
ISBN13: 9780814735695
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Feb 1 1998
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Why does Christianity feel the need to impose its customs and beliefs on the rest of the world? And why has an impulse driven at least partially by sincere concern for the salvation of others so often played into the hands of ruthless colonizers with more cynical aims?
Bringing together scholars in literature, history, and religion, Christian Encounters with the Other Approaches these questions by analyzing literary accounts of historically famous sites of conversion. Covering the Renaissance through to the present and spanning much of the globe, the volume discusses a range of authors and their works--from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Stephen Riggs's ethnographic representations of the Sioux, to Salvation Army pamphleteers and Victorian missionaries, to China, to the works of Cameroonian novelist Mongo Beti, Guatemalan Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, and Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo.

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