Missions and Empire

by Etherington, Norman

• ISBN13: 9780199253487
• ISBN10: 019925348X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 heg

Author Biography

Norman Etherington recieved his BA and PhD degrees from Yale University. He joined the History Department at the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in 1968 and was subsequently appointed Reader in History. In 1989 he moved to the University of Western Australia taking up the position of Professor and Chair of History. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, a past President of the Australian Historical Association, a Member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a Member of the International Association for mission studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Prelude: The Christianizing of British America	p. 19
An Overview, 1700-1914	p. 40
Humanitarians and White Settlers in the Nineteenth Century	p. 64
Where the Missionary Frontier Ran Ahead of Empire	p. 86
Christian Missions and the Raj	p. 107
New Christians as Evangelists	p. 132
'Trained to Tell the Truth': Missionaries, Converts, and Narration	p. 153
Women and Cultural Exchanges	p. 173
Language	p. 194
New Religious Movements	p. 216
Anthropology	p. 238
Education and Medicine	p. 261
Decolonization	p. 285
Index	p. 307
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