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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI: 10.1163/156852710X540186 Numen 58 (2011) 129–151 brill.nl/nu Book Reviews White Men’s God. The Extraordinary Story of Missionaries in Africa . By MAR- TIN BALLARD. Oxford: Greenwood World Publishing, 2008. 224 pp. ISBN-10 1846450322 ISBN-13 978-1846450327 (hbk.). Martin Ballard provides a comprehensive overview of modern Christian mis- sion in Africa south of the Sahara. With modern mission understood as the proselytizing endeavours of post-enlightenment Christianity, he focuses on the 19th century, with some considerations of late 18th century activities and limited forays into the 20th century, which he considers beyond the “Mission- ary Era” proper. In the first chapter, he discusses some of the social and intel- lectual background for this new type of missionaries, namely the pietistic and evangelical strands of Protestantism, the tensions between European settlers/ slave-owners and the anti-slavery movements, and the establishment of mission societies in affirmation of or opposition to philosophical enlighten- ment. With the second chapter, Ballard enters the field of mission in sub- Saharan Africa, and he starts out with the Christian repercussions of the “repatriation” of freed African slaves in Sierra Leone and Liberia during the first half of the 19th century. After this special
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