Excellent4.8 out of 5On Trustpilot
  1. Church History/
  2. Modern

Bookmark this item

Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

£88.28

Free UK Delivery

Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days

Buying for a school or church? Upgrade to a FREE Eden Advance Account

Bookmark this item

For scholars interested in missionary and colonial studies

Examines the impact of missionary writings on imperial views

You will gain a deeper understanding of faith and empire

Explore the complex role of missionaries in colonial cultures through Anna Johnston's insightful analysis.

Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. These texts provide a fascinating commentary on nineteenth-century evangelism and colonialism, and illuminate complex relationships between white imperial subjects, white colonial subjects, and non-white colonial subjects. With their reformist, and often prurient interest in sexual and familial relationships, missionary texts focused imperial attention on gender and domesticity in colonial cultures. Johnston contends that in doing so they rewrote imperial expansion as a moral allegory and confronted British ideologies of gender, race and class. Texts from Indian, Polynesian and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism and race.
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860 and Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800 - 1860
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800 - 1860Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

  • Title

    Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800-1860

  • Author

    Anna Johnston (university Of Tasmania)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    August 2003

  • Weight

    582g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521826990

  • ISBN-10

    0521826993

  • Eden Code

    1151709

Real Easter Eggs