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Reviews REVIEWS CHRISTENSEN, Torben and HUTCHISON, William R. Missionary ideologies in the imperialist era: 1880-1920. Copenhagen: Aros 1982 248 pp. 87.7003.437.0 This collection of papers from a conference at Durham held in 1981 deals with an extremely important subject both for the missiologist and the more general historian. It is difficult im- mediately to see what the lessons of the exchange of information were. The twenty papers vary greatly in their approaches, the con- cluding overview is extremely cautious and only two of the contributors-Walls and Hutchison-attempt to generalise to any significant extent. Yet the lack of any obvious lessons which can be transferred to textbooks as accepted truths is itself instructive. One might expect, for example, that missions from non-colonial nations might find it more difficult to co-operate with colonial rulers but this does not seem to be the case. Again, certain missions, given the histories of their present churches, might be expected to be more likely than others to accept Erastian tendencies. In fact, the extent and nature of collaboration-or opposition-to the colonial state authorities seems to have varied even within missions and may often have been profoundly affected by individual attitudes as, for example, Hansen shows http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

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Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 16 (1): 67 – Jan 1, 1986
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© 1986 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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10.1163/157006686X00056
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REVIEWS CHRISTENSEN, Torben and HUTCHISON, William R. Missionary ideologies in the imperialist era: 1880-1920. Copenhagen: Aros 1982 248 pp. 87.7003.437.0 This collection of papers from a conference at Durham held in 1981 deals with an extremely important subject both for the missiologist and the more general historian. It is difficult im- mediately to see what the lessons of the exchange of information were. The twenty papers vary greatly in their approaches, the con- cluding overview is extremely cautious and only two of the contributors-Walls and Hutchison-attempt to generalise to any significant extent. Yet the lack of any obvious lessons which can be transferred to textbooks as accepted truths is itself instructive. One might expect, for example, that missions from non-colonial nations might find it more difficult to co-operate with colonial rulers but this does not seem to be the case. Again, certain missions, given the histories of their present churches, might be expected to be more likely than others to accept Erastian tendencies. In fact, the extent and nature of collaboration-or opposition-to the colonial state authorities seems to have varied even within missions and may often have been profoundly affected by individual attitudes as, for example, Hansen shows

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Published: Jan 1, 1986

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