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Missions and Empire

by Norman Etherington

  • Paperback
  • 352 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 16 x 23.3 x 2 cm

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For history enthusiasts interested in Christian missions

Clarifies misconceptions about missions and imperialism

You will gain deeper insights into cultural transformations

Missions and Empire explores the dynamic link between Christianity and the British Empire.

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The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion - belying the image of Christianity as the 'white man's religion'.
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  • Author

    Norman Etherington

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    January 2008

  • Weight

    491g

  • Page Count

    352

  • Dimensions

    16 x 23.3 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199253487

  • ISBN-10

    019925348X

  • Eden Code

    1132334

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