last update 6/06/09

 

Le Fait Missionnaire
Social Sciences & Missions
info@lefaitmissionnaire.com
 
     
 
Home
About LFM
Current issue
Past issues
Downloadable
Subscriptions
Newsletter
Resources
Links
Instructions
to authors
ISSN: 1420-2018

          

LFM is now published by Brill in Leiden under the title Social Sciences and Mission (SSM)

 

Social Sciences and Missions / Sciences sociales et missions

LFM. Social Sciences Missions is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of the social and political influence of Christian missions in Africa and other parts of the (former) colonial world. Since 2007 it is published by E.J Brill (Leiden) under the title Social Sciences and Missions / Sciences sociales et mission.

Christian missions represent a unique site of observation for the study of modern societies, in the « north » as well as in the « south ». This is the reason why  missions constitute the « prime material » of the journal Social Sciences & Missions. Our aim is not to study missions for themselves, but rather as « total social phenomena », an idiom, which history, anthropology, sociology or political science can use to analyse reality and give it meaning. This constitutes the originality of our approach – to the best of our knowledge, Social Sciences & Missions is the only social sciences journal dedicated to this object of study.

The origins of Social Sciences & Missions go back to a series of Occasional papers called Le Fait Missionnaire. Histoire et héritages – Approche pluridisciplinaire, launched in 1995 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Le Fait Missionnaire (LFM) was born at the nexus of missiology, political sociology and history within an interdisciplinary team around the late Professor Klauspeter Blaser. After the publication of some twelve issues, the occasional papers became a peer-review journal entitled LFM. Social Sciences & Missions in 2003 out of which the present journal emerged in 2007.

For the online version of the journal. see: http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/ssm

Forthcoming News Of interest

SSM 22/2
Marxism and Mission
[see call for paper here *pdf}

SSM 23/1
Gender and Mission in the Middle East
(Guest editor: Inger Marie Okkenhaug)

SSM 22/1 out now !
The Anthropological Encounter
(Guest editor: Lorenzo Macagno)



Previous news
Click here!

Conference
"The Transatlantic Dimensions of African and Asian Christianity", Andrew Walls Centre Center, Liverpool Hope University, 19-21 June 2009. [*doc]

Call for papers
"Merchants & Missionaries: Trade and Religion in World History" (2008 World History Association Annual Conference), Salem, Massachussetts, 25-29 June 2009 [*pdf]

Conference
"Missions et engagements politiques après 1945", 25-28 août 2009, CREDIC, Bruxelles, Belgique [*pdf]

Conference
"Religion, Environment and Sustainable Development", 16-20 January 2010, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria [link]

Conference
"Mission history as history of the globalisation of knowledge. The transcultural appropriation and transmission of knowledge by Christian missionaries in Africa and Asia in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries", 16-18 September 2010, Berlin, Germany. [*doc]