ABSTRACT
The book investigates facets of global Protestantism through Anglican, Quaker, Episcopalian, Moravian, Lutheran Pietist, and Pentecostal missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples and political reform endeavours in a global purview that spans the 1730s to the 1930s. The book uses key examples to trace both the local and the global impacts of this multi-denominational Christian movement.
The essays in this volume explore three of the critical ways in which Protestant communities were established and became part of a worldwide network: the founding of far-flung missions in which Western missionaries worked alongside enslaved and indigenous converts; the interface between Protestant outreach and political reform endeavours such as abolitionism; and the establishment of a global epistolary through print communication networks.
Demonstrating how Protestantism came to be both global and ecumenical, this book will be a key resource for scholars of religious history, religion and politics, and missiology as well as those interested in issues of postcolonialism and imperialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|89 pages
Atlantic missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples
chapter 1|26 pages
“A Christian Splendour from an Ethnick Sky”
chapter 4|18 pages
“A bulwark of slavery”? 1
part II|73 pages
Nationalist, imperialist, and reform politics
chapter 5|23 pages
Double consciousness and missionary work
chapter 6|25 pages
The forgotten apostle
chapter 7|23 pages
Commerce, Christianity, and colonial philanthropy
part III|70 pages
Global communications, print, and modernity