Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire

Description: Christian missions have often been seen as the religious arm of Western imperialism. What is rarely appreciated is the role they played in bringing about an end to the Western colonial empires after the Second World War. Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire explores this neglected subject.

Respected authorities on the history of missions explore new territory in these chapters, examining from diverse angles the linkages between Christianity, nationalism, and the dissolution of the colonial empires in Asia and Africa. This work not only sheds light on the relation of religion and politics but also uncovers the sometimes paradoxical implications of the church's call to bring the gospel to all the world.

Contributors: Daniel H. Bays
Philip Boobbyer
Judith M. Brown
Richard Elphick
Deborah Gaitskell
Adrian Hastings
Caroline Howell
Ka- che Yip
Ogbu U. Kalu
Hartmut Lehmann
Derek Peterson
Andrew Porter
Brian Stanley
John Stuart

Brief description: Brian Stanley is professor of world Christianity anddirector of the Centre for the Study of World Christianityat University of Edinburgh School of Divinity. Aninternational authority on the missionary movement, he isthe author of The History of the Baptist MissionarySociety, 1792-1992 and The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in theNineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. "