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Builders of the Chinese Church: pioneer Protestant missionaries and Chinese church leaders by G. Wright DoylePublication Date: 2015-01-29
From 1807 to the 1920s thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians labored under very adverse conditions to lay the groundwork for a Chinese church. This book contains the stories of nine leading pioneers--seven missionaries and two Chinese. Here we meet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi; Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and advocates of education and reform, W. A. P. Martin and Timothy Richard.
An Unpredictable Gospel: American evangelicals and world Christianity, 1812-1920 by Jay Riley CasePublication Date: 2012-01-02
The astonishing growth of Christianity in the global south over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity.' What are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been evangelizing in the global south?This book examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new scholarship. Case argues that if they were agents of imperialism, they were poor ones. The ministries that were most successful were those that empowered the local population and adapted.
China's Millions: the China Inland Mission and late Qing society, 1832-1905 by Alvyn AustinPublication Date: 2007-03-05
In China's Millions veteran historian Alvyn Austin presents a compelling historical narrative of the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship) -- the first history of the CIM by an outsider -- including 36 never-before-published illustrations and maps from the CIM/OMF archives. In the course of his sweeping survey, Austin examines a remarkable array of subjects, from the visionary, charismatic sect-leader Pastor Hsi, to the "wordless book," a missionary teaching device that fit perfectly with Chinese color cosmology, to the opium-soaked aftermath of the North China Famine of 1877-79.
Revivals and Roller Rinks: religion, leisure, and identity in late-nineteenth-century small-town OntarioPublication Date: 1996-01-01
In this examination of the social and cultural meanings of religion and leisure in nineteenth-century small-town Ontario, Lynne Marks looks inside churches, hotel bars, fraternal lodge rooms, and roller-skating rinks to discover the extent to which a particular Protestant value system and lifestyle dominated small towns of the period. In assessing the extent of Protestant cultural influence, Marks also illuminates the nature of social relations and group identity, particularly with regard to gender, class, religion, age, and marital status.
Blood Ground : colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Blood Ground traces the transition from religion to race as the basis for policing the boundaries of the "white" community. Elbourne shows that while the Khoekhoe used Christianity as a tool to combat aspects of colonialism, throughout the nineteenth century there were broad shifts in the relationship of missions to colonialism as the British missionary movement became less internationalist, more respectable, and more emblematic of the British imperial project. She argues that it is symptomatic of the ambiguities of this relationship that many Christian Khoekhoe ultimately rebelled against the South African colony.
Salvation and the Savage by Robert F. BerkhoferPublication Date: 2015-01-13
The great, pre-Civil War attempt of Protestant missionaries to Christianize Native Americans is found by Berkofer to be a significant point of contact. The irony displayed by this relationship did not truly lie in the disparity between Anglo-Saxon ideals and actions but in the failure of all to see that both sides had ultimately behaved according to their values. Using the records of missions to sixteen tribes in various regions of the United States, Berkofer has carefully followed the hopeful efforts of sixty-five years.
Christian Imperialism: converting the world in the early American republic by Emily Conroy-KrutzPublication Date: 2015-11-18
In 1812, eight American missionaries sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were no less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire world. Over the next several decades, these men and women were joined by hundreds more American missionaries at stations all over the globe. Conroy-Krutz shows the surprising demonstrates that American evangelical Protestants of the early nineteenth century were motivated by Christian imperialism.
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism by David F. Lindenfeld (Editor); Miles Richardson (Editor)Publication Date: 2011-10-30
The globalization of Christianity is a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by exploring overarching, general terms such as conversion and syncretism and by showing the variety of strategies and processes that actually take place, these studies lead to a more nuanced understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions in general.
Healing Bodies, Saving Souls by David HardimanPublication Date: 2006-01-01
Missionary medicine flourished during the period of high European imperialism, from the late-1800s to the 1960s. Although the figure of mission doctor - exemplified by David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer - exercised a powerful influence on the Western imagination during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, few historians have examined the history of this important aspect of the missionary movement. This collection of articles on Asia and Africa uses the extensive archives that exist on medical missions to both enrich and challenge existing histories of the clinic in colonial terri.
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