Colloquium

Research Field 4

This meeting will be devoted to a discussion of the potentials of and possible perspectives on  mission, a theme relevant to both RF 4 and RF 2. Discussion will be based on two readings and short input statements by members of RF 4 who deal with mission in their projects (Anne-Charlott Trepp, Hans Martin Krämer, Marion Eggert/Andreas Müller-Lee).

Readings:

Porter, Andrew: Religion versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion 1700-1914, Manchester UP 2005: "Introduction"

Whaling, Frank: "A Comparative Religious Study of Missionary Transplantation on Buddhism, Christianity and Islam", International Review of Mission, Vol LXX, 1981, 314-333.