Missions and empire

Missions and empire / Norman Etherington, editor.

The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Sp...

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Other Authors: Etherington, Norman (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
Subjects:
Missions, British > History.
Christianity and politics > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Imperialism > History.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
British colonies
Imperialism
Missions, British
Religion
Imperialisme.
Zending.
Great Britain > Colonies > Religion.
Great Britain
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: the Christianizing of British America / Eliga H. Gould
  • An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter
  • Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester
  • Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker
  • Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg
  • New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock
  • 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths
  • Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock
  • Language / Paul Landau
  • New religious movements / Rober Edgar
  • Anthropology / Patrick Harries
  • Education and medicine / Norman Etherington
  • Decolonization / David Maxwell.

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