Global protestant missions: Politics, reform, and communication, 1730s–1930s Book

Gibbs, JM. (2019). Global protestant missions: Politics, reform, and communication, 1730s–1930s . 1-262. 10.4324/9780429029127

cited authors

  • Gibbs, JM

authors

abstract

  • The book investigates facets of global Protestantism through Anglican, Quaker, Episcopalian, Moravian, Lutheran Pietist, and Pentecostal missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples and political reform endeavours in a global purview that spans the 1730s to the 1930s. The book uses key examples to trace both the local and the global impacts of this multi-denominational Christian movement. The essays in this volume explore three of the critical ways in which Protestant communities were established and became part of a worldwide network: The founding of far-flung missions in which Western missionaries worked alongside enslaved and indigenous converts; the interface between Protestant outreach and political reform endeavours such as abolitionism; and the establishment of a global epistolary through print communication networks. Demonstrating how Protestantism came to be both global and ecumenical, this book will be a key resource for scholars of religious history, religion and politics, and missiology as well as those interested in issues of postcolonialism and imperialism.

publication date

  • January 1, 2019

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start page

  • 1

end page

  • 262