Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Part I The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages 5
1 From Christ to Christendom 7
From Jerusalem into "All the World" 10
The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400-1400 21
2 Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450- 31
Bible Translation and the Roots of Modern Missions 32
The Revitalization of Catholic Missions 36
The Beginnings of Protestant Missions 41
Voluntarism and Mission 44
Protestant Missionary Activities in the Nineteenth Century 48
3 Global Networking for the Nations, 1910- 53
The Growth of Global Networks 56
International Awakenings 60
Awakening Internationalism 64
Postcolonial Rejection of Christian Mission 67
Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission 69
Part II Themes in Mission History 81
4 The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land 83
Critiques of Missions 87
Missionaries and Human Rights 98
Missionaries and the Land 107
5 Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women's Well-Being 114
Women as Missionaries 118
Purity and Gender Neutrality 119
The Mission of Motherhood 124
Women's Well-Being and Social Change 131
6 Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki 142
Who Was St. Patrick? 144
Bernard Mizeki, "Apostle to the Shona" 159
Missionaries and the Formation of Communal Christian Identities 171
7 Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context 173
Bibliography 178
Index 193