Pacifying Missions

Christianity, Violence, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53678-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Studies in Christian Mission

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Troughton, Geoffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).