The Church Mission Society and world Christianity, 1799-1952 / edited by Kevin Ward and Brian Stanley. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., 2000. - xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Studies in the history of Christian missions . - Studies in the history of Christian missions. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-372) and index.

Taking stock : the Church Missionary Society and its historians / Church Missionary Society and the Basel Mission / Role of women in the Church Missionary Society, 1799-1917 / CMS women missionaries in Persia / Being made disciples, the Middle East / Not transplanting : Henry Venn's strategic vision / CMS and the African transformation / Culture and ecclesiology / India : missionaries, conversion, and change / Role of Kikuyu Christians in developing a self-consciously African Anglicanism / Mission and the meetiing of faiths / CMS and mission in Britain / Kevin Ward -- Paul Jenkins -- Jocelyn Murray -- Guli Francis-Dehqani -- Kenneth Cragg -- Peter Williams -- Lamin Sanneh -- Allan K. Davidson -- Geoffrey A. Oddie -- John Karanja -- Graham Kings -- John Clark.

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