Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Robert, Dana Lee.

Description

x, 304 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in the history of Christian missions

Uniform Title

Studies in the history of Christian missions.

Subject

Missions > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-290) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

^^2007027525

OCLC

154677901

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library