Doing missions right: Popular development imaginaries and practices among U.S. evangelical Christians

Nagel, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.06.007

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“…Through these explorations, I contribute to a small but critical body of scholarship that seeks to decentre the study of missions (after Brickell, 2012; Baillie Smith et al ., 2013; Zehner, 2013; Nagel, 2018, 2021). In doing so, I both build upon, and provide a point of departure from, Nagel's (2018: 1–2) recent lament that ‘scholars outside the field of missiology have given little attention to the ways in which mission experiences shape young American Christians’ understandings of themselves as members of, and active participants in, ‘a global field’.…”

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Realising contingent religious subjects through relational spaces of missionary encounter

Woods

2021

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper explores the ways in which the religious subject can be a contingent position that is responsive to the broader socio‐religious context within which it is expressed. These contingencies are acutely observed among short‐term missionaries (STM), who seek out encounters with difference in pursuit of a more cosmopolitan subjectivity. Yet, while spaces of missionary encounter are inherently relational, the missions literature has tended to downplay the effects of relationality on the realisation of these subject positions. By focusing on the experiences of Singaporean missionaries working among Christian communities in Southeast Asia, I contribute a more nuanced and less pre‐determined understanding of the dynamics that underpin intra‐Asian missionary encounters. Drawing on interviews conducted with Singapore's STM community, I explore how materiality and new media can structure encounters and subject positions within relational missionary space. I also emphasise the limits of relational space by highlighting its untranslatability beyond the missionary terrain.

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