Main entry:

Missionary spaces (Leuven University Press : 2024)

Title & Author:

Missionary spaces : imagining, building, contesting Christianities in Africa and China, 1830s-1960s / edited by Thomas Coomans.

Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

xxxi, 263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (many color), plans ; 29 cm

Series:

KADOC Artes ; 17

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-251) and indexes.
Part 1. Imagined world, adapted strategies. -- Spatial trajectories and missionary and colonial movements into Northwest Ghana since 1929 : Dagara reception of Catholic missionary activites / Alexis B. Tengan -- Redeeming Ukamba : word and world, 1893-1905 / Maarten Onneweer -- Islands on the mainland : Catholic missions and spatial strategies in China, 1840s-1940s / Thomas Coomans -- Co-authoring the city : missionaries and the colonial city of Lulaburg (Belgian Congo), 1930-1960s / Bram Cleys -- The Catholic territorialization of Taiwan : Vatican global strategy and Franciscan local parishes, 1949-1960s / Leon Bouwmeester, Thomas Coomans -- Part. 2. Universal projects, localized architectures. -- Gendered spaces in Catholic compounds of late Qing China / Thomas Coomans -- Gender-designed Catholic churches in North China, 1830s-1920s / Thomas Coomans -- 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 -- Civilizing space in West China : re-examining the place of the Christian University in Chengdu, 1909-1933 / Lawrence Braschi -- A highly "mediated monument" of tropical modernism in Central Africa : unpacking the complex agendas behind the design and construction of the Collège du Saint-Esprit in Bujumbura, Burundi / Johan Lagae.

ISBN:

9789462701441 (hardbound)
946270144X (hardbound)

Subject:

Church architecture China 19th century.
Church architecture China 20th century.
Church architecture Africa, Central 19th century.
Church architecture Africa, Central 20th century.
Religious architecture.
Missions History 19th century.
Missions History 20th century.
Church architecture.
Architecture religieuse.
Architecture chrétienne.
Missions Histoire 19e siècle.
Missions Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture chrétienne Chine 19e siècle.
Architecture chrétienne Chine 20e siècle.
religious buildings.
churches (buildings)

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Coomans, Thomas, editor.
KADOC artes ; 17.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325942
Call No.: 325942
Copy: 1
Status: Available