Converting colonialism :visions and realities in mission history, 1706-1914 /edited by Dana L. Robert.

Name/Title

Converting colonialism :visions and realities in mission history, 1706-1914 /edited by Dana L. Robert.

Description

Mission reports from South India and their impact on the Western mind : the Tranquebar Mission of the eighteenth century /Daniel Jeyaraj --The Christian vision and secular imperialism : missionaries, geography, and the approach to East Africa, c. 1844-1890 /Roy Bridges --Evangelicalism, Islam, and millennial expectation in the nineteenth century /Andrew Porter --The Church Missionary Society and the indigenous church in the second half of the nineteenth century : the defense and destruction of the Venn ideals /C. Peter Williams --Evangelical missions and racial "equalization" in South Africa, 1890-1914 /Richard Elphick --The "Christian home" as a cornerstone of Anglo-American missionary thought and practice /Dana L. Robert --From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari Dey : Indian builders of the church in Bengal, 1800-1894 /Eleanor Jackson --Indigenous agency, religious protectorates, and Chinese interests : the expansion of Christianity in nineteenth-century China /R.G. Tiedemann --A new Christian politics? : the mission-educated elite in West African politics /J.F.A. Ajayi. x, 304 p. ;24 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Missions--History.

Call No.

BV2120 .C66 2008

ISBN

9780802817631 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0802817637 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007027525

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-290) and index.