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The imperial horizons of British Protestant missions, 1880-1914
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., c2003
Abstract/Sommario:
Christians missions have long been associated with the growth of empire and colonial rule. For just as long, the nature and consequences of that association has provoked animated debate over such themes as "culture" and "identity." This volume brings together studies of changing attitudes and practices in Protestant missions during the hectic decades of European imperial and territorial expansion between 1880 and 1914.
Written by acknowledged experts, the book includes chapters on the ...; [leggi tutto]
Christians missions have long been associated with the growth of empire and colonial rule. For just as long, the nature and consequences of that association has provoked animated debate over such themes as "culture" and "identity." This volume brings together studies of changing attitudes and practices in Protestant missions during the hectic decades of European imperial and territorial expansion between 1880 and 1914.
Written by acknowledged experts, the book includes chapters on the imperial and ecclesiastical ambitions of the high-church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; the role of empire as an arena for working out Christian understandins of race, missionary strategies and the transfer of Western scientific knowledge; Indian nationalist responses to Christian teaching; and changing interpretations fo Western missionary methods in China and of female missionary roles in South Africa
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