A collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars in the field, In God's Empire examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution.
A collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars in the field, In God's Empire examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution.
Owen White is Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware J.P. Daughton is Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
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* Acknowledgments * Contributors * Introduction: Placing French Missionaries in the Modern World, Owen White and J. P. Daughton * * Part I: French Missionaries in the Atlantic World * 1. When Catholic Worlds Collide: French Missionaries and Ecclesiastical Politics in Louisiana, 1803-1845, Michael Pasquier * 2. Creating "The People of God": French Utopian Dreams and the Moralization of Africans and Slaves, Troy Feay * 3. Bretons in Conquest of a Former Colony: French Catholic Missionaries in Haiti, 1860-1915, Philippe Delisle * * Part II: The Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and the Middle East * 4. Charity Begins Abroad: The Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire, Sarah A. Curtis * 5. Muslim Princes, Female Missionaries, and Trans-Mediterranean Migrations: The Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition in Tunisia, c. 1840-1881, Julia Clancy-Smith * 6. Missionary Militarism? The Armed Brothers of the Sahara and Léopold Louis Joubert in the Congo, Bertrand Taithe * 7. Flourishing in Exile: French Missionaries in Syria and Lebanon under Mandate Rule, Jennifer M. Dueck * * Part III: East and Southeast Asia * 8. Measuring Catholic Faith in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Northeast China, Ji Li * 9. A Colonial Sacred Union? Church, State, and the Great War in Colonial Vietnam, Charles Keith * * Part IV: Africa and Oceania * 10. When French Protestants Replaced British Missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; Or, How to Avoid the Colonial Trap, Jean-François Zorn * 11. The "Catechist War" in Interwar French Cameroon, Kenneth J. Orosz * 12. A Mission in Transition: Race, Politics, and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal, Elizabeth A. Foster * Afterword: The Missionary Experience in the British and French Empires, Norman Etherington * Select Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgments * Contributors * Introduction: Placing French Missionaries in the Modern World, Owen White and J. P. Daughton * * Part I: French Missionaries in the Atlantic World * 1. When Catholic Worlds Collide: French Missionaries and Ecclesiastical Politics in Louisiana, 1803-1845, Michael Pasquier * 2. Creating "The People of God": French Utopian Dreams and the Moralization of Africans and Slaves, Troy Feay * 3. Bretons in Conquest of a Former Colony: French Catholic Missionaries in Haiti, 1860-1915, Philippe Delisle * * Part II: The Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and the Middle East * 4. Charity Begins Abroad: The Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire, Sarah A. Curtis * 5. Muslim Princes, Female Missionaries, and Trans-Mediterranean Migrations: The Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition in Tunisia, c. 1840-1881, Julia Clancy-Smith * 6. Missionary Militarism? The Armed Brothers of the Sahara and Léopold Louis Joubert in the Congo, Bertrand Taithe * 7. Flourishing in Exile: French Missionaries in Syria and Lebanon under Mandate Rule, Jennifer M. Dueck * * Part III: East and Southeast Asia * 8. Measuring Catholic Faith in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Northeast China, Ji Li * 9. A Colonial Sacred Union? Church, State, and the Great War in Colonial Vietnam, Charles Keith * * Part IV: Africa and Oceania * 10. When French Protestants Replaced British Missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; Or, How to Avoid the Colonial Trap, Jean-François Zorn * 11. The "Catechist War" in Interwar French Cameroon, Kenneth J. Orosz * 12. A Mission in Transition: Race, Politics, and the Decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal, Elizabeth A. Foster * Afterword: The Missionary Experience in the British and French Empires, Norman Etherington * Select Bibliography * Index
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