entzieht sich klassischen historischen, religionswissenschaftlichen und interkulturell-theologischen Deutungsmustern. Mit Beiträgen von Michael Biehl, Daniel Cyranka, Katharina Döbler, Moritz Fischer, Andreas Heuser, Klaus Hock, Claudia Jahnel, Klaus-Dieter Kaiser, Doris Kriegel, Anita Martin, Ulrike Sallandt und Georg Seeßlen. [Mission in Film and Literature. 1: Heuristic Approach: Contexts - Actors - Ambivalences] Mission continues to be in vogue in film and literature - whether explicitly as in Scorsese's »Silence« (2016) or in the Netflix remake of »Black Narcissus« (2020), whether en passant as in »The Sand Pebbles« (1966) or implicitly as in Herzog's »Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin«. The contributions in this volume deal with the staging of mission in novels and films. They reveal shared motifs such as the crossing of borders, the encounter with the »other«, failure or the confrontation with colonialism and power. At the same time, in the tension between fiction and fact, story and history, the understanding of mission remains open and eludes classical historical, religious studies and intercultural-theological patterns of interpretation.