Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World - Hardcover

Twaddle, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852557841 ISBN 13: 9780852557846

Publisher: James Currey, 2002

Synopsis

The education of many Third World leaders by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. Christian missionaries from a diversity of backgrounds - Africans as well as Americans and Europeans - contributed to the construction, destruction and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean, through educational activity, and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer and other sacramental endeavours. This is a study of Christian missionaries and the state in the Third World.

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Review:

This is an important area of study that is still working itself out. The rich, and often fascinating, accounts of the work of Christian missionaries contained in this book make a useful contribution to our understanding of their work and impact. --Development Policy Review

This volume bears eloquent testimony to the vitality and sophistication of contemporary scholarship on the political significance of Christian missions in nineteenth and twentieth-century Africa. --Journal Of Third World Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: James Currey
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0852557841
• ISBN 13: 9780852557846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Hansen Holger Bernt, Twaddle Michael