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Missions and Empire

Missions and Empire REVIEW ARTICLE MISSIONS AND EMPIRE  DAVID MARTIN ( London School of Economics) E  , Norman (ed.), Missions and Empire , Oxford, Oxford Univ- ersity Press, 2005, 332 pp., 0 197 925347 1, £30. B  , Peggy (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change , Studies in Christian Mission 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, 262 pp., 0924 9389, € 99. The recent revisionist history and anthropology of empire to some extent uncouples the conventional linkages between imperial and Christian expansion, including what the Comaro ff s call ‘performing civilization’. Christian expansion occurred before, after, beyond and sometimes in spite of the British empire; there was little attempt to institute a state church abroad; and indigenous carriers were the primary agents with missionaries in facilitating roles. The volume edited by Norman Etherington belongs to the Companion Series of the Oxford History of the British Empire, given the rather sparing treatment of missions in the main body of the History. With its major revisionist thrust it might well be read alongside another revi- sionist genre focusing on ‘How Britain Made the Modern World’, to quote the subtitle of Niall Ferguson’s Empire . Then there is Arthur Herman’s How http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

Missions and Empire

Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 36 (2): 224 – Jan 1, 2006

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Brill
Copyright
© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
eISSN
1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006606777070641
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REVIEW ARTICLE MISSIONS AND EMPIRE  DAVID MARTIN ( London School of Economics) E  , Norman (ed.), Missions and Empire , Oxford, Oxford Univ- ersity Press, 2005, 332 pp., 0 197 925347 1, £30. B  , Peggy (ed.), Indigenous Peoples and Religious Change , Studies in Christian Mission 31, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2005, 262 pp., 0924 9389, € 99. The recent revisionist history and anthropology of empire to some extent uncouples the conventional linkages between imperial and Christian expansion, including what the Comaro ff s call ‘performing civilization’. Christian expansion occurred before, after, beyond and sometimes in spite of the British empire; there was little attempt to institute a state church abroad; and indigenous carriers were the primary agents with missionaries in facilitating roles. The volume edited by Norman Etherington belongs to the Companion Series of the Oxford History of the British Empire, given the rather sparing treatment of missions in the main body of the History. With its major revisionist thrust it might well be read alongside another revi- sionist genre focusing on ‘How Britain Made the Modern World’, to quote the subtitle of Niall Ferguson’s Empire . Then there is Arthur Herman’s How

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Journal of Religion in AfricaBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

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