Summary
Christianity is a very successful missionary religion: no other religion has ever spread to so many parts of the globe, or won converts among so many different peoples. This book looks at the men and women who dedicated their lives to spreading their faith, the key figures in the process, and organisations which planned it. It begins in the sixth and seventh centuries when England and the Netherlands were the mission fields, taking up the story again in the seventeenth century, but the main focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when missions flourished. Some chapters look at strategists in Europe and North America, others at missionaries in Hong Kong, Kenya, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Middle East. Topics of particular interest include the relationship between missionaries and colonial governments and between missionaries and indigenous Christians, the impact of new theologies, and the growing importance of women in modern missions. As a whole, the book illuminates the day to day experiences of individual missionaries, while placing them within a wider framework of political, social, and intellectual change. Professor PIETER N. HOLTROP teaches at the Theologische Universiteit, Kampen; Professor HUGH McLEOD teaches in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham.Contributors: ANNA MARIA LUISELLI FADDA, EUGENE HONÉE, HENDRIK E. NIEMEIJER, KATE LOWE, JORIS VAN EIJNATTEN, ANDREW PORTER, H.L. MURRE-VAN DEN BERG, GUUS BOONE, BRIAN STANLEY, PIETER N. HOLTROP, RACHEL A. RAKOTONIRINA, MYRTLE HILL, LIESBETH LABBEKE, JOHN CASSON
Table of Contents
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Editors' Preface |
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The Vernacular and the Propagation of the Faith in Anglo-Saxon Missionary Activity |
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Anna Maria Luiselli Fadda |
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St Willibrord in Recent Historiography |
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Political Rivalry and Early Dutch Reformed Missions in Seventeeth-Century North Sulawesi (Celebes) |
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The Beliefs, Aspirations and Methods of the First Missionaries in British Hong Kong, 1841-5 |
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Civilizing the Kingdom: Missionary Objectives and the Dutch Public Sphere Around 1800 |
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Language, `Native Agency', and Missionary Control: Rufus Anderson's Journey to India, 1854-5 |
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Why Protestant Churches? The American Board and the Eastern Churches: Mission among `Nominal' Christians (1820-70) |
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Modernism and Mission: The Influence of Dutch Modern Theology on Missionary Practice in the East Indies in the Nineteenth Century |
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`Hunting for Souls': The Missionary Pilgrimage of George Sherwood Eddy |
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The Governor a Missionary? Dutch Colonial Rule and Christianization during Idenburg's Term of Office as Governor of Indonesia (1909-16) |
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Re-reading Missionary Publications: The Case of European and Malagasy Martyrologies, 1837-1937 |
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Women in the Irish Protestant Foreign Missions c. 1873-1914: Representations and Motivations |
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`There is so much involved...' The Sisters of Charity of Saint Charles Borromeo in Indonesia in the Period from the Second World War |
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Missionaries, Mau Mau and the Christian Frontier |
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Index |
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