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Missions and Empire (Paperback)
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Missions and Empire (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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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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