These are my main academic publications. I have also published other material, e.g. for the think-tank Ekklesia, of which I am an Associate.
Note that I have a policy regarding closed-access and open-access publishing.
Books
AUTHORED
2005
Attempting to bring the gospel home: Scottish missions to Palestine, 1839-1917, London: I.B. Tauris
EDITED
2006
Christian witness between continuity and new beginnings: modern historical missions in the Middle East, co-editor with Martin Tamcke, series: Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte, Hamburg: LIT Verlag (see also below)
Articles and essays
2013
forthcoming ‘On the processes of knowing, knowing well and knowing differently in missionary practice: contextualising the contextualisation of Scottish medical knowledge in Palestine, ca. 1918 to 1948′ in Humanitarianism, nursing and missions: How to study knowledge exchanges in a historical, transnational perspective, eds. Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Ellen Fleischmann, Sonya Grypma, Michael Marten, Leiden: Brill (probably)
2012
forthcoming ‘”The loneliest woman in Africa” – missionary biography as a form of Scottish Protestant sainthood’, to appear in Anthropos, in a special edition that I am co-editing.
forthcoming ‘Egypt and the Coptic Church’, in, Religious Minorities of the Middle East: a Complete Survey of Non-Muslim Communities, ed. Erica Hunter, London: I.B. Tauris, 2012.
2011
‘Re-imagining ‘metropole’ and ‘periphery’ in mission history’, in Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, eds. Hilde Nielssen/Inger Marie Okkenhaug/Karina Hestad Skeie, Leiden: Brill, 2011: 293-315.
‘Escaping from Sunday School – teaching ‘the Middle East’ in a religion setting’, in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, vol. 10, no. 3, July 2011: 241-251 (I also co-edited this special edition on ‘religion’, and co-authored the introduction).
2010
‘The theology and practice of Scottish medical missions: the study of missions in Palestine through a postcolonial lens’, in The social dimension of mission in the Middle East (19th and 20th century), eds. Norbert Friedrich/Uwe Kaminsky/Roland Löffler, series: Missionswissenschaftliches Archiv, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner-Verlag: 155-178.
‘Indigenisation and contextualisation – the example of Anglican and Presbyterian churches in the Holy Land’, in Christianity and Jerusalem: Theology and Politics in the Holy Land, ed. Anthony O’Mahony, Gracewing Publishers, London/Leominster: Gracewing Publishers: 115-137.
2008
‘Die Gottesfrage als Kern des Glaubens – Veränderungen im Denken W H Temple Gairdners’, in Christliche Gotteslehre im Orient seit dem Aufkommen des Islams bis zur Gegenwart, ed. Martin Tamcke, Beirut: Orient-Institut/Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag, 189-202 (raw text available here)
2007
‘Independent women missionaries in the Scottish school in Jaffa, 1918-1936: identifying subaltern narratives’, in Interpreting relief and welfare activities in the Middle East. 1800-2005, eds. Nefissa Naguib/Inger Marie Okkenhaug, series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Leiden: Brill, 107-128
2006
‘Imperialism and evangelism: Scottish missionary methods in late 19th and early 20th century Palestine’, in Holy Land Studies, vol 5, no. 2, November 2006, 105-186
‘Communicating home: Scottish missionary publications in the 19th and early 20th centuries’, in the edited collection Christian witness… (see above), 81-98
2005
‘Anglican and Presbyterian Presence and Theology in the Holy Land’, in The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, special issue on “Christianity and Jerusalem: Religion, Politics and Theology in the Modern Holy Land”, editor: Anthony O’Mahony, vol. 5, no. 3, 2005, 182-199
2004
‘Perceptions and Realities of the Holy Land’, review article in Holy Land Studies, vol 3, no. 1, May 2004, 113-117
2002
‘Where were you? Reflections on the current crisis in the Middle East’, in Coracle, issue 3/60, June 2002, 10-11
‘The Free Church of Scotland in 19th-century Lebanon’, in Chronos. Revue d’Histoire de l’Université Balamand, Balamand, vol. 5, 2002, 51-106
2001
‘Representation and misrepresentation in 19th century Lebanon – Scottish and American missionaries in conflict’, in Orientalische Christen zwischen Repression und Migration: Beiträge zur jüngeren Geschichte und Gegenwartslage, ed. Martin Tamcke, series: Studien zur Orientalischen Kirchengeschichte, Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 167-183
1999
‘Doing Theology on the Ground: an interview with Naim Ateek’, in Coracle, issue 3/46, July 1999, 6-7
Encyclopaedia entries
2008
Article: ‘Middle East’, in Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries, ed. Jonathan Bonk, Religion and Society series, first edition, 1 volume, Berkshire/Routledge, Massachusetts
Article: ‘Turkey’, in Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 5, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans
Reviews
2008
Philip Broadhead/Damien Keown (eds.): Can Faiths Make Peace? Holy War and the Resolution of Religious Conflict, in Middle Eastern Studies
2006
Maria Småberg: Ambivalent Friendship: Anglican Conflict Handling and Education for Peace in Jerusalem 1920-1948, in Middle Eastern Studies
Inger Marie Okkenhaug/Ingvild Flaskerud (eds.): Gender, Religion and Change in the Middle East: Two Hundred Years of History, in Holy Land Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, May 2006, 124-125
2005
John K. Cooley, An Alliance Against Babylon: The U.S., Israel, and Iraq, in Holy Land Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, November 2005, 108-109
1999
J. A. B. Jongeneel: Philosophy, Science and Theology of Mission in the 19th and 20th Centuries. A Missiological Encyclopedia, Part II: Missionary Theology, in Koinonia. The Princeton Theological Seminary Graduate Forum, vol. XI, no. 2, Fall 1999, 289-291
Closed- and open-access publishing (back to top)
Note: I intend to have, where possible, open-access links to accessible versions of all my writings. At the beginning of 2012 I took a conscious decision, wherever possible, to do the following:
- complete all outstanding commitments to closed-access journals;
- henceforth only publish my work in open access journals or in books;
- reject all requests for assistance for closed-access journals, including peer-review, book reviews, etc.
In brief: I am no longer prepared to offer my work and services for free to profit-making corporations that restrict access to their journals.
Why open-access? Watch this video, and/or read this article for good summaries of some of the main issues. The LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog is a great source for further information and discussion of this issue.
