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List of Illustrations | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. x |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages | p. 5 |
From Christ to Christendom | p. 7 |
From Jerusalem into "All the World" | p. 10 |
The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400-1400 | p. 21 |
Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450- | p. 31 |
Bible Translation and the Roots of Modern Missions | p. 32 |
The Revitalization of Catholic Missions | p. 36 |
The Beginnings of Protestant Missions | p. 41 |
Voluntarism and Mission | p. 44 |
Protestant Missionary Activities in the Nineteenth Century | p. 48 |
Global Networking for the Nations, 1910- | p. 53 |
The Growth of Global Networks | p. 56 |
International Awakenings | p. 60 |
Awakening Internationalism | p. 64 |
Postcolonial Rejection of Christian Mission | p. 67 |
Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission | p. 69 |
Themes in Mission History | p. 81 |
The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land | p. 83 |
Critiques of Missions | p. 87 |
Missionaries and Human Rights | p. 98 |
Missionaries and the Land | p. 107 |
Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women's Well-Being | p. 114 |
Women as Missionaries | p. 118 |
Purity and Gender Neutrality | p. 119 |
The Mission of Motherhood | p. 124 |
Women's Well-Being and Social Change | p. 131 |
Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki | p. 142 |
Who Was. St. Patrick? | p. 144 |
Bernard Mizeki, "Apostle to the Shona" | p. 159 |
Missionaries and the Formation of Communal Christian Identities | p. 171 |
Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context | p. 173 |
Bibliography | p. 178 |
Index | p. 193 |
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