Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800 1860 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521826990)

Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnson analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnson reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are also examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relationship to gender, colonialism, and race.

Author: Anna Johnston
ISBN-10: 0521826993
ISBN-13: 9780521826990
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2003
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2004 pg. 1079