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Missions and empire [electronic resource] / Norman Etherington, editor.

Contributor(s): Etherington, Norman | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Oxford history of the British Empire companion series: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: xiii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Missions, British -- History | Christianity and politics -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History | Imperialism -- History | Imperialisme | Zending | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Religion | 2Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 266/.02341 Other classification: 15.50 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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