The'spatial turn' of missionary placesSituated at the crossroads of missionary history,imperial history and colonial architecture, the contributions in this volume investigatethe architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansionof Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By looking at specificarchitectural fragments, analysing the insertion of Christian edifices incolonial urban settings, or unravelling the social understanding of missionaryplaces, each of the chapters contemplates an aspect of the agency of missionspaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines,this book approaches missionary places not as the mere décor against which themissionary encounter was enacted, but as an integral part of it. In doing so, thecontributors test the applicability of the spatial turn, an interpretativeparadigm that has been dominant across the humanities since the late 1990s, to missionaryhistoriography.Richly illustratedand with a global focus, the volume addresses case studies from, among othercountries, China, Japan, Madagascar, Congo, Tanzania, Ghana and Lebanon.Contributions: Lawrence Braschi (School of Oriental and African Studies,London), Alexis Bremner (University of Edinburgh), Elisabeth L. Cameron(University of California), Bram Cleys (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), ThomasCoomans (KU Leuven), Céline Frémaux, Allen M. Howard (University of Wisconsin),Aleksandra Majstorac-Kobiljski (École des hautes études en sciences sociales,Paris), Maarten Onneweer (Universiteit Leiden), Karen Hestad Skeie (NLAUniversity College Bergen), and Alexis B. Tengan.