ABSTRACT
Describes the exceptional wealth of missionary archives and the major contributions they can make not only to the study of the processes of Christian evangelism and Western imperialism but also their value in documenting and analysing the nature of Western encounters with indigenous societies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|27 pages
“Mighty England do Good”
The Major English Denominations and Organisation for the Support of Foreign Missions in the Nineteenth Century
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chapter 2|12 pages
Some Problems in Writing a Missionary Society History Today
The Example of the Baptist Missionary Society
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chapter 3|20 pages
"Open Doors for Female Labourers"
Women Candidates of the London Missionary Society, 1875–1914.
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chapter 7|25 pages
The Nature of a Mission Community
The Universities' Mission to Central Africa in Bonde
chapter 9|23 pages
A ‘Peculiar and Exceptional Measure'
The Call for Women Medical Missionaries for India in the Later Nineteenth Century
chapter 11|29 pages
“To Serve and Not to Rule”
British Protestant Missionaries and Chinese Nationalism, 1928–1931
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