Mission Possible?
The Basel Mission Collection Reflecting Cultural Encounters
Description:... 4e de couv.: The Basel Mission was active in Ghana, Cameroon, India, China and Indonesia. The present volume focusses on the history of its development and sheds light on mission practises, its various operational areas and the diverse fields of conflict, covering its failures as well as successes. It also addresses the mission's entanglement with and dissociation from the respective colonial administration. Today the Mission's tasks have changed. "Mission 21", which emerged from the union of the Basel Mission with three other missionary societies, sees itself as an organization engaged in development cooperation and collaborating closely with local churches. The emphasis is no longer on proselytization, but on equal exchange instead. In their contributions Veit Arlt, Michael Bangert, Tobias Brandner, Matthäus Feigk, Peter Felber, Kathrin Fischer, Lucy Hindermann, Claudia Hoffmann, Jennifer Jenkins, Paul Jenkins, Dagmar Konrad, Georg Kreis, Adrian Linder, Anna Schmid, Anke Schürer-Ries and Christian Vandersee offer fascinating insights into the working order and self-image of an organization that has undergone fundamental changes over the course of its two-hundred-year history. This publication accompanies the exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel by the same title and is richly illustrated with historical images from the archives of the Basel Mission as well as new object photographs from the collection.
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