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Nature and the Godly Empire - Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (Hardcover, New)
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Nature and the Godly Empire - Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
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Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became
secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified
colonialism. This book explores the relationship between
nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western
world. At focus are the intrepid missionaries of the London
Missionary Society who reverently surveyed the oceans and islands
of the Pacific and instructed converts to observe nature in order
to interpret God's designs. Sujit Sivasundaram argues that the
knowledge that these missionaries practised functioned as a popular
science that was inextricably linked with religious expansion. He
shows how Britain's providential empire found support from popular
views of nature as much as elite science and how science and
religion came together in communities far from the metropolis even
as disputes raged in Europe. This will be essential reading for
historians of empire, science and religion, cultural historians,
environmental historians and anthropologists.
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