Converting Colonialism: Vision and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 Book

Contributors     vii
Acknowledgements     x
Introduction   Dana L. Robert     1
Mission Reports from South India and Their Impact on the Western Mind: The Tranquebar Mission of the Eighteenth Century   Daniel Jeyaraj     21
The Christian Vision and Secular Imperialism: Missionaries, Geography, and the Approach to East Africa, c. 1844-1890   Roy Bridges     43
Evangelicalism, Islam, and Millennial Expectation in the Nineteenth Century   Andrew Porter     60
The Church Missionary Society and the Indigenous Church in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Defense and Destruction of the Venn Ideals   C. Peter Williams     86
Evangelical Missions and Racial 'Equalization' in South Africa, 1890-1914   Richard Elphick     112
The 'Christian Home' as a Cornerstone of Anglo-American Missionary Thought and Practice   Dana L. Robert     134
From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari Dey: Indian Builders of the Church in Bengal, 1800-1894   Eleanor Jackson     166
Indigenous Agency, Religious Protectorates, and Chinese Interests: The Expansion of Christianity in Nineteenth-Century China   R. G. Tiedemann     206
A New Christian Politics? The Mission-Educated Elite in West African Politics   J. F. A. Ajayi     242
Selected Bibliography     265
Index     291