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Unruly Images: Representing India in the Calwer Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde (1883)
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 7, issue 2 (2021), pp. 55-86
"This article focuses on a work published in 1883 by a German Christian press associated with a missionary society. The book provides a visual panorama of all the world’s cultures in 1,690 engravings. Most images were reproductions of material that had initially appeared in a variety of other cont
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"To give publicity to our thoughts": Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2018), 378 pp.
"Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen indigen-christliche Eliten in Asien und Afrika, sich stärker in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit ihrer Länder zu artikulieren. Sie gründeten ihre eigenen Journale, kritisierten Missstände in Gesellschaft und Missionskirchen, beteiligten sich an sozialen Be
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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78
"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
From Jesus to the Internet: A History of Christianity and Media
New York: Wiley (2015), 336 pp.
"From Jesus to the Internet is the first systematic survey of the historical relationship between Christianity and media. Although many see the relationship between religion and media as a distinctly modern phenomenon, in this book the scholar Peter Horsfield examines Christianity through its histor
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Missionary Printing
In: The Book: A Global History
Michael F. Suarez, H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 107-115
"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo
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Politics and Book Publishing in the Pacific Islands
Wollongong: Doctoral Thesis University of Wollongong (2008), xii, 407 pp.
"This dissertation discusses interactions between politics and book publishing by missions and colonial governments in areas of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia over approximately 200 years [...] From its inception, book publishing in the Pacific Islands has been a significant instrument of ideo
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The Christian Messenger
West Africa, issue 13 (19 January) (1997), pp. 57-61
"Provides a history of one of the publishing products during British colonial rule: The Christian Messenger, a pioneering journal and newspaper (with text in English and in Ghanaian languages) founded by German and Swiss missionaries as a joint venture between the Methodist Church and the Basel Miss
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Evangelische Kirche und Massenmedien: Eine historische Analyse der Intentionen und Realisationen evangelischer Publizistik
München: Verlag Reinhard Fischer (1990), ix, 567 pp.
"Historisch stand die evangelische Kirche den im Entstehen begriffenen Massenmedien - zunächst der säkularen Presse, später dem Film und noch in den 20er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts dem Rundfunk - distanziert gegenüber. Da die Medien ihr aber auch Möglichkeiten zu einer medialen Verkündigung e
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