Product Description: Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking...read more

Product Description: This is the first scholarly treatment of nineteenth century Christianity to discuss the subject in a global context. In addition to exhaustive chapters on European Christendom, it deals with the expansion of Christianity in the Americas, Asia, Australasia and Africa, covering both Catholic and Protestant traditions...read more

Product Description: English summary: There has been much academic debate over recent years on Europe defining itself over against the Other. This volume asks from the opposite perspective: What views did non-Europeans hold of European Christianity? In this way, the volume turns the agency of definition over to non-Europeans...read more

Product Description: The World Missionary Conference in 1910 was a defining event in the history of world missions. Brian Stanley here presents his careful research revealing the compelling story of this turbulent, influential gathering in Edinburgh. This book is both an account of the conference itself and an examination of the Protestant missionary movement as it neared the apex of its size and influence...read more

A critique of conventional missionary principles that remains relevant for all those involved, or who wish to become involved, in missionary work. The author asserts the distinction, which needs to be made in missionary aims between the extension of the Church and the preaching of Jesus Christ.

Product Description: Christian missions have often been seen as the religious arm of Western imperialism. What is rarely appreciated is the role they played in bringing about an end to the Western colonial empires after the Second World War. Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire explores this neglected subject...read more

Presents a collection of maps that detail the history and development of Christianity. (view table of contents)

Product Description: An informative look at Christianity around the world through the eyes of one of the church's most significant mission organizations. This volume marking the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society not only recounts the history of a major mission institution but also provides significant discussion about the meaning of mission and the expansion of Christianity worldwide...read more

Product Description: The Baker Atlas of the Bible and Christianity contains 160 new maps covering both the biblical period and all 2000 years of church history. Based on the most recent innovations in cartography, the computer-generated maps are of the highest level. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A scholarly examination of the relationship between Protestant missions and imperialism in the past 200 years.