Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth-century England
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Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture in nineteenth-century England
Stanford University Press, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-237) and index
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This book explores the missionary movement s influence on popular perceptions of empire and race in nineteenth-century England. The foreign missionary endeavor was one of the most influential of the channels through which nineteenth-century Britons encountered the colonies, and because of their ties to organized religion, foreign missionary societies enjoyed more regular access to a popular audience than any other colonial lobby. Focusing on the influential denominational case of English Congregationalism, this study shows how the missionary movement s audience in Britain was inundated with propaganda designed to mobilize financial and political support for missionary operations abroad, propaganda in which the imperial context and colonized targets of missionary operations figured prominently.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The birth of modern missions
- 3. 'Congregationalism's special mission': Missions and the making of an English middle class, 1795-1845
- 4. From telescopic philanthropy to social missionary imperialism: the antinomies of class and gender in missionary conceptions of race, 1845-1895
- 5. Pride and prejudice: the social relations of missionary philanthropy, 1867-1914
- 6. The strange death of missionary imperialism, 1895-1925
- Notes
- Works cited
- index.
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