Translating the message : the missionary impact on culture /
Lamin Sanneh
- 2nd ed., Revised and Expanded
- xii, 324 pages : black & white illustrations; 24 cm.
- American Society of Missiology Series, No. 42 .
1. The birth of mission: the Jewish-Gentile frontier -- 2. Mission and the cultural assimilation of Christianity: the Hellenistic factor -- 3. The witness of God and the vocation of nations: the authorized ("King James") Bible and the vernacular Ethos -- 4. Mission and colonialism: vernacularization and westernization -- 5. Protest, reaction, and renewal: vernacular ferment in the Niger Delta -- 6. Missionary translation in African perspective: religious and theological themes -- 7. "Familiarity breeds faith": first and last resorts in vernacular translation -- 8. Translatability in Islam and Christianity with special reference to Africa: recapitulating the theme