Pacifying Missions

Christianity, Violence, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2023
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-53678-4 (ISBN)

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Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted peace, considering its complex entanglements with violence in the British Empire. The volume brings together world leading historical scholarship on issues of increasing contemporary valence.

Pacifying Missions provides the first sustained examination of peace and missionary work in the context of the British Empire. It interrogates diverse missionary projects from Africa and the Pacific region, unfolding a variegated world of ideas, discourses, and actions. The volume yields compelling evidence for a reconsideration of peace as a vital focus for analysis in the history of Christian mission. It also reveals a landscape of peace that was plural, dynamic, and contested, worked out in specific contexts, and deeply entangled with understandings and experiences of violence.

Contributors to this volume are: Geoffrey Troughton, Elizabeth Elbourne, Jane Samson, David Maxwell, Norman Etherington, Esme Cleall, Amy Stambach, Joanna Cruickshank, and Bronwyn Shepherd.

Geoffrey Troughton, Ph.D. (2008), Massey University, is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His major publications include New Zealand Jesus (2011), Saints and Stirrers (2017), and Pursuing Peace in Godzone (2018).

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1 Missions, Peace, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Geoffrey Troughton

2 Peace, Genocide, and Empire: The London Missionary Society and the San in Early Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa

Elizabeth Elbourne

3 Te Ngara’s Journey: The Gospel of Peace and the Melanesian Mission

Jane Samson

4 Maori Christianity, Missions, and the State in New Zealand Wars of the 1860s

Norman Etherington

5 Not Peace but a Sword: Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and Slavery in Late Nineteenth-Century Central Africa

David Maxwell

6 John Mackenzie’s “True Vision of the Future”: Imagining Peace in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa

Esme Cleall

7 “In the Interest of Peace, the Society Yielded”: Mission Growth and Retreat in Moshi-Kilimanjaro

Amy E. Stambach

8 Missionaries, Peacemaking, and the “Meeting of Laws” in Australia

Joanna Cruickshank and Bronwyn Shepherd

9 Missions and Peace in Prospect

Geoffrey Troughton

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Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Christian Mission ; 58
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	501 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-53678-7 / 9004536787
ISBN-13	978-90-04-53678-4 / 9789004536784
Zustand	Neuware