Missions, nationalism, and the end of empire / edited by Brian Stanley ; associate editor, Alaine Low.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanley, Brian, 1953-

Low, Alaine M.

Allan and Philip Carlson Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in the history of Christian missions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missions--History--20th century--Congresses.

Missions.

Nationalism--History--20th century--Congresses.

Nationalism.

Decolonization--History--20th century--Congresses.

Decolonization.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 313 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub., [2003]

Summary:

An important review of Christian missions in the twentieth century. Christian missions have often been seen as the religious arms of Western imperialism. What is rarely appreciated is the role they played in bringing about an end of the Western colonial empires after the Second World War. This book explores this neglected subject. Here respected authorities on the history of missions explore new territory. These chapters examine 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Christianity and the End of Empire / Brian Stanley 1

Part I Missionary Traditions, National Loyalties, and the Universal Gospel

1. The Clash of Nationalism and Universalism within Twentieth-Century Missionary Christianity / Adrian Hastings 15

2. Missionaries without Empire: German Protestant Missionary Efforts in the Interwar Period (1919-1939) / Hartmut Lehmann 34

3. Missions and Afrikaner Nationalism: Soundings in the Prehistory of Apartheid / Richard Elphick 54

4. The Universities' Mission to Central Africa: Anglo-Catholicism and the Twentieth-Century Colonial Encounter / Andrew Porter 79

Part II Emergent Christian and National Identities in Asia and Africa

5. Who Is an Indian? Dilemmas of National Identity at the End of the British Raj in India / Judith M. Brown 111

6. China and Christianity: Perspectives on Missions, Nationalism, and the State in the Republican Period, 1912-1949 / Ka-che Yip 132

7. Foreign Missions and Indigenous Protestant Leaders in China, 1920-1955: Identity and Loyalty in an Age of Powerful Nationalism / Daniel H. Bays 144

8. The Rhetoric of the Word: Bible Translation and Mau Mau in Colonial Central Kenya / Derek Peterson 165

Part III Christian Responses to Crises at the End of Empire

9. "Speaking for the Unvoiced"? British Missionaries and Aspects of African Nationalism, 1949-1959 / John Stuart 183

10. Church and State in Crisis: The Deposition of the Kabaka of Buganda, 1953-1955 / Caroline Howell 194

11. Moral Re-Armament in Africa in the Era of Decolonization / Philip Boobbyer 212

12. Apartheid, Mission, and Independent Africa: From Pretoria to Kampala with Hannah Stanton / Deborah Gaitskell 237

13. Passive Revolution and Its Saboteurs: African Christian Initiative in the Era of Decolonization, 1955-1975 / Ogbu U. Kalu 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-293) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Allan and Philip Carlson Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0802821162

OCLC:

53045218