BM Archives

God made man[-kind?] in His own image – Reflections on the history of Africa and the study of missionary photography

In: Andrea Schultze u.a (Hrsg.):. Vom Geheimnis des Unterschieds. Ddie Wahrnehmung des Fremden in Oekumene- Missions- und Religionswissenschaft, S. 136-154

Everyday life encapsulated? Two photographs concerning women and the Basel Mission in West Africa c. 1900

In: The Journal of African Cultural Studies, 2002 vol 1, pp. 45-60 (An earlier and shorter German version was also published, see Q-80-20.04.04.057)

Much More than Illustrations of What We Already Know: Experiences in the Rediscovery of Mission Photography

In: International Bulletin of Missionary Research, October 2002, pp. 157-163

A Letter to Adu / On Adu Boahen

In: Toyin Falola (ed.): Ghana in Africa and the World, Essays in Honour of Adu Boahen, 2002, pp. 37-50 and in: Toyin Falola (ed.): Africa in the Twentieh Century.The Adu Boahen Reader, pp. 23-30

Camera evangelistica – camera lucida? Trans-border experiences with historical photographs from a mission archive

In: Michael Albrecht, Veit Arlt, Barbara Müller, Jürg Schneider (Hrsg): Getting Pictures Right. Context and Interpretation, Köln 2004, pp.117-140.

Prinzip und Praxis

In: Zum Andenken an Christoph Zimmermann, S. 17-19

You must learn what the farmers already know

In: In Memory of Christoph Zimmermann, pp. 16-19

On reading Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains: British Christian Activists, slavery and opium 1780-1850

In: J. George (ed.) The God of All Grace – Essays in honour of Origen Vesantha Jathanna, Bangalore, pp. 351-364

Four Thousand Forgotten Generations: The Longue Durée in African History Challenges Mission, Theology and Piety

In: Mission Studies, 2005 No. 2, pp. 249-265

A Provisional Survey of nineteenth century Photography on the Gold Coast and in Ashanti, focussed on the Basel Mission collection, and with special reference to the images linked to the war of 1874

In: Journal des Africanistes, Tomes 75, Fasc. 2, 2005, pp.257-280

Westafrikanische Pastoren als Pionierhistoriker: Carl C. Reindorf (1834-1917) und Samuel Johnson (1846-1901)

In: Periplus. Jahrbuch für aussereuropäische Geschichte, 2006, S. 129-141

Vor und hinter der Kamera – zur protestantischen Missionsphotographie vor 1914

In: Günter Bernhardt (Hrsg). Die Ferne im Blick. Westfälisch-Lippische Sammlungen zur Fotografie aus Mission und Kolonien, Münster/Westfalen, 2006, S. 138-155.