Missions and empire /
The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Sp...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Edice: | Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=177029 |
Obsah:
- Prelude: the Christianizing of British America / Eliga H. Gould
- An overview, 1700-1914 / Andrew Porter
- Humanitarians and white settlers in the nineteenth century / Alan Lester
- Where the missionary frontier ran ahead of empire / John Barker
- Christian missions and the Raj / Robert Eric Frykenberg
- New Christians as evangelists / Peggy Brock
- 'Trained to tell the truth': missionaries, converts, and narration / Gareth Griffiths
- Women and cultural exchanges / Patricia Grimshaw and Peter Sherlock
- Language / Paul Landau
- New religious movements / Rober Edgar
- Anthropology / Patrick Harries
- Education and medicine / Norman Etherington
- Decolonization / David Maxwell.