These studies explore the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions atound the world. Bringing together monographs by established and emerging scholans collections of essays on themes in the history or missions, and new editions of seminal primary texts, this series provides rich sonrce material for studying the relation between religion and culture.

Christian missions have long been associated with the growth of empire and colonial rule. For just as long, the nature and consequences of that association have provoked animated debate over such themes as "culture" and "identity." This volume brings together studies of changing attitudes and practices in Protestant missions during the hectic decades of European imperial and territorial expansion between 1880 and 1914. Written by acknowledged experts, The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions includes chapters on the imperial and ecclesiastical ambitions of the high-church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; the role of empire as an arena for working out Christian understandings of atonement; the international politics of the missionary movement; conflicting understandings of race, missionary strategies, and the transfer of Western scientific knowledge; Indian nationalist responses to Christian teaching; and changing interpretations of Western missionary methods in China and of female missionary roles in South Africa.

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ISBN: 9780802860873
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: WM B EERDMANS PUB CO - published 15/06/2003
Format: Paperback