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Missionary Spaces: Imagining, Building, Contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1840-1960 [Hardback]

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Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history, and colonial architecture, the contributions in this volume investigate the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By looking at specific architectural fragments, analysing the insertion of Christian edifices in colonial urban settings, or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each of the chapters contemplates an aspect of the agency of mission spaces.

Bringing together scholars from different disciplines, this book approaches missionary places not as the mere d cor against which the missionary encounter was enacted, but as an integral part of it. In doing so, the contributors test the applicability of the spatial turn, an interpretative paradigm that has been dominant across the humanities since the late 1990s, to missionary historiography.

Richly illustrated and with a global focus, the volume addresses case studies from, among other countries, China, Japan, Madagascar, Congo, Tanzania, Ghana, and Lebanon.

Recenzijas

En définitive, cet ouvrage est ą la fois une contribution ą larchitecture, ą lhistoire, et ą la réflexion sur les échanges entre lOccident, lAfrique et lAsie. Il met en lumičre les interactions qui ont accompagné lentreprise missionnaire (et coloniale), faites souvent de petites négociations quotidiennes, lesquelles transforment profondément les acteurs engagés dans ces processus et par suite leur vision du monde. Quiconque sintéresse aux questions de rencontres dautres cultures et ą la question missionnaire tirera profit de cet ouvrage. Lintroduction est ą recommander aux doctorants et jeunes chercheurs travaillant sur ces questions. - Yves VENDÉ, Mélanges de science religieuse, n° 82/1, 2025 De sterkte van de bundel ligt zowel in de diversiteit van de cases als in de vormelijke aspecten van de uitgave. Het boek levert niet alleen een bijdrage aan de missiegeschiedenis omdat het een ruimtelijke lens plaatst op deze sub-discipline, maar ook omdat het bijdragen over China en Afrika samenbrengt. Ondanks de vele overlappingen Westerse missionaire gemeenschappen hadden vaak missies in zowel China als Afrika bestudeerden historici ze tot nog toe zelden samen7. Bovendien illustreren de cases de verschillende dimensies van ruimtelijkheid, gaande van kosmologische opvattingen over tijd en ruimte tot de architectuur van specifieke gebouwen, en tonen ze hoe die met elkaar verweven zijn. De uitgave zelf is in magazineformaat en op fotopapier gedrukt, waardoor de vele afbeeldingen volledig tot hun recht komen. Dat is een meerwaarde voor de bijdragen waarin scans van archiefmateriaal, oude afbeeldingen, en fotos genomen tijdens veldwerk als illustratie dienen, maar bewijst vooral zinvol in de paar hoofdstukken die het visuele materiaal ook echt als bronnen van analyse gebruiken. - Mick Feyaerts, Contemporanea, #01 / 2025, https://www.contemporanea.be/nl/article/thomas-coomans-ed-missionary-spaces-i magining-building-contesting-christianities-in-africa-and-china-1830s-1960s-l euven-university-press-2024/ Owing to Coomanss exceptional collection of essays on the spacial islands of missionary buildings and complexes in Africa and China, scholars can better apprehend why these two regions must be viewed jointly when conducting research on the global missions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume is an essential work to add to the shelves of anyone interested in the history of architectural and cultural exchange between the West and Africa and China. - Anthony E. Clark, The Catholic Historical Review, Volume 110, Number 4, Autumn 2024, pp. 802-804, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cat.2024.a945416

INTRODUCTION

Imagining, Building, Contesting Missionary Spaces
Thomas Coomans

PART ONE IMAGINED WORLD / ADAPTED STRATEGIES

1 Spatial Trajectories and Missionary and Colonial Movements into Northwest
Ghana since 1929: Dagara Reception of Catholic Missionary Activities
Alexis B. Tengan

2 Redeeming Ukamba: Word and World, 1893-1905
Maarten Onneweer

3 Islands on the Mainland: Catholic Missions and Spatial Strategies in China,
1840s-1940s
Thomas Coomans

4 Co-authoring the City: Missionaries and the Colonial City of Luluaburg
(Belgian Congo), 1930-1960
Bram Cleys

5 The Catholic Territorialization of Taiwan: Vatican Global Strategy and
Franciscan Local Parishes, 1949-1960s
Leon Bouwmeester and Thomas Coomans

PART TWO UNIVERSAL PROJECTS / LOCALIZED ARCHITECTURES

6 Gendered Spaces in Catholic Compounds of Late Qing China
Thomas Coomans

7 Gender-Designed Catholic Churches in North China, 1830s-1920s
Thomas Coomans

8 The Missionaries in the Cosmopolitan Towns of the Suez Isthmus, Egypt:
Their Role in the Formation of Identity in Architecture and Urban Planning,
1860-1937
Céline Frémaux

9 Civilizing Space in West China: Re-examining the Place of the Christian
University in Chengdu, 1909-1933
Lawrence Braschi

10 A Highly Mediated Monument of Tropical Modernism in Central Africa:
Unpacking the Complex Agendas behind the Design and Construction of the
Collčge du Saint-Esprit in Bujumbura, Burundi
Johan Lagae

Abbreviations
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Authors
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Bram Cleys studied history at KU Leuven and is education officer at the University Centre for Development Cooperation (UCOS), a Belgian NGO. Jan De Maeyer is professor emeritus with formal duties at KU Leuven, honorary director of KADOC-KU Leuven, chairman of the Advisory Commission on Cultural Heritage of the Flemish Community (2017-2022), and president of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (2009-2018). Bruno De Meulder studied architecture at KU Leuven where he now teaches colonial and postcolonial urbanism in the Department of Architecture. Allen M. Howard is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin. He taught and does research in African and Atlantic history. He has written extensively on the application of spatial analysis to African history. Along with Michael Adas, he has taken a major role in developing and supervising the field of World and Comparative History.