Missionary Interests
Missionary Interests

Author: David Golding

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2024-04-15

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 150177445X

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In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith. Despite their sectarian differences, both groups of missionaries shared notions of dividing the world categorically along the lines of race, status, and relative exoticism, and both employed humanitarian outreach with designs to proselytize. American missionaries occupied liminal spaces: between proselytizer and proselytized, feminine and masculine, colonizer and colonized. Taken together, the chapters in Missionary Interests dismantle easy characterizations of missions and conversion and offer an overlooked juxtaposition between Mormon and Protestant missionary efforts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development
The Negro in the South, His Economic Progress in Relation to His Moral and Religious Development

Author: Booker T. Washington

Publisher:

Published: 1907

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Four lectures given as part of an endowed Lectureship on Christian Sociology at Philadelphia Divinity School. Washington's two lectures concern the economic development of African Americans both during and after slavery. He argues that slavery enabled the freedman to become a success, and that economic and industrial development improves both the moral and the religious life of African Americans. Du Bois argues that slavery hindered the South in its industrial development, leaving an agriculture-based economy out of step with the world around it. His second lecture argues that Southern white religion has been broadly unjust to slaves and former slaves, and how in so doing it has betrayed its own hypocrisy.

Protestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World
Protestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World

Author: Hugh Morrison

Publisher: Brill Research Perspectives in

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9789004471030

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At Christmas 1936, Presbyterian children in New Zealand raised over £400 for an x-ray machine in a south Chinese missionary hospital. From the early 1800s, thousands of children in the British world had engaged in similar activities, raising significant amounts of money to support missionary projects world-wide. But was money the most important thing? Hugh Morrison argues that children's education was a more important motive and outcome. This is the first book-length attempt to bring together evidence from across a range of British contexts. In particular it focuses on children's literature, the impact of imperialism and nationalism, and the role of emotions.

Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians
Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians

Author: Jerome Teelucksingh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-11-26

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9004417087

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In Beyond the Legacy of the Missionaries and East Indians, Jerome Teelucksingh offers a revisionist perspective of the role of the Presbyterian Church in Trinidad. He is particularly interested in social mobility as regards the Indo-Caribbean diaspora in the era following the First World War. He argues that the Presbyterian Church in the Caribbean was particularly interested in women’s rights. As such, he examines the dynamic between local expertise and Canadian missionary work in such social uplift processes.