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Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire.
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. These texts provide a fascinating commentary on nineteenth-century evangelism and colonialism, and illuminate complex relationships between white imperial subjects, white colonial subjects, and non-white colonial subjects. With their reformist, and often prurient interest in sexual and familial relationships, missionary texts focussed imperial attention on gender and domesticity in colonial cultures. Johnston contends that in doing so they re-wrote imperial expansion as a moral allegory and confronted British ideologies of gender, race, and class. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.
Table of content:
Writing missionaries: an introduction; Part I. The Mission Statement: 1. The British Empire, colonialism, and missionary activity; 2. Gender, domesticity, and colonial evangelisation; Part II. Storming Satan's Threshold: The LMS in India: 3. 'The peculiar claims of India as a field of missionary enterprise; 4. 'The literary labours of missionaries in India'; 5. Indian women, British feminists, and Indian nationalists; Part III. Narratives of Missionary Enterprise in the South Seas: The LMS in Polynesia: 6. 'We have discovered them, and in a sort have brought them into existence'; 7. 'That interesting class of any truthful narrative, however imperfect, of the trials and triumphs of Christian missionaries in Polynesia'; Part IV. The LMS in Australia: 8. A 'country of civilized thieves and savage natives'; 9. Lancelot Threlkeld in New South Wales.
Anna Johnston analyses missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston argues that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, caught between imperial and religious interests. She maps out this position through an examination of texts published by missionaries of the largest, most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. These texts provide a fascinating commentary on nineteenth-century evangelism and colonialism, and illuminate complex relationships between white imperial subjects, white colonial subjects, and non-white colonial subjects. With their reformist, and often prurient interest in sexual and familial relationships, missionary texts focussed imperial attention on gender and domesticity in colonial cultures. Johnston contends that in doing so they re-wrote imperial expansion as a moral allegory and confronted British ideologies of gender, race, and class. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relation to gender, colonialism, and race.
Table of content:
Writing missionaries: an introduction; Part I. The Mission Statement: 1. The British Empire, colonialism, and missionary activity; 2. Gender, domesticity, and colonial evangelisation; Part II. Storming Satan's Threshold: The LMS in India: 3. 'The peculiar claims of India as a field of missionary enterprise; 4. 'The literary labours of missionaries in India'; 5. Indian women, British feminists, and Indian nationalists; Part III. Narratives of Missionary Enterprise in the South Seas: The LMS in Polynesia: 6. 'We have discovered them, and in a sort have brought them into existence'; 7. 'That interesting class of any truthful narrative, however imperfect, of the trials and triumphs of Christian missionaries in Polynesia'; Part IV. The LMS in Australia: 8. A 'country of civilized thieves and savage natives'; 9. Lancelot Threlkeld in New South Wales.