Converting colonialism : visions and realities in mission history, 1706-1914 / edited by Dana L. Robert. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2008. - x, 304 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in the history of Christian missions .

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

Mission reports from South India and their impact on the Western mind : the Tranquebar Mission of the eighteenth century / The Christian vision and secular imperialism : missionaries, geography, and the approach to East Africa, c. 1844-1890 / Evangelicalism, Islam, and millennial expectation in the nineteenth century / The Church Missionary Society and the indigenous church in the second half of the nineteenth century : the defense and destruction of the Venn ideals / Evangelical missions and racial "equalization" in South Africa, 1890-1914 / The "Christian home" as a cornerstone of Anglo-American missionary thought and practice / From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari Dey : Indian builders of the church in Bengal, 1800-1894 / Indigenous agency, religious protectorates, and Chinese interests : the expansion of Christianity in nineteenth-century China / A new Christian politics? : the mission-educated elite in West African politics / Daniel Jeyaraj -- Roy Bridges -- Andrew Porter -- C. Peter Williams -- Richard Elphick -- Dana L. Robert -- Eleanor Jackson -- R.G. Tiedemann -- J.F.A. Ajayi.

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

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Missions--History.

BV 2120 / .C66 2008