Missionary Spaces

INTRODUCTION

Imagining, Building, Contesting Missionary Spaces
Thomas Coomans

PART ONE - IMAGINED WORLD / ADAPTED STRATEGIES

1 Spatial Trajectories and Missionary and Colonial Movements into Northwest Ghana since 1929: Dagara Reception of Catholic Missionary Activities
Alexis B. Tengan

2 Redeeming Ukamba: Word and World, 1893-1905
Maarten Onneweer

3 Islands on the Mainland: Catholic Missions and Spatial Strategies in China, 1840s-1940s
Thomas Coomans

4 Co-authoring the City: Missionaries and the Colonial City of Luluaburg (Belgian Congo), 1930-1960
Bram Cleys

5 The Catholic Territorialization of Taiwan: Vatican Global Strategy and Franciscan Local Parishes, 1949-1960s
Leon Bouwmeester and Thomas Coomans

PART TWO - UNIVERSAL PROJECTS / LOCALIZED ARCHITECTURES

6 Gendered Spaces in Catholic Compounds of Late Qing China
Thomas Coomans

7 Gender-Designed Catholic Churches in North China, 1830s-1920s
Thomas Coomans

8 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
Celine Fremaux

9 Civilizing Space in West China: Re-examining the Place of the Christian University in Chengdu, 1909-1933
Lawrence Braschi

10 A Highly 'Mediated Monument' of Tropical Modernism in Central Africa: Unpacking the Complex Agendas behind the Design and Construction of the College du Saint-Esprit in Bujumbura, Burundi
Johan Lagae

Abbreviations
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Authors
Colophon

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• Arquitectura
• História da religião
• Colonialismo, imperialismo e

missionary history;imperial history;colonial architecture