In God's Empire (eBook, PDF)

French Missionaries and the Modern World
Redaktion: White, Owen; Daughton, J. P.

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of original 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. More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an essential feature of French contact and interaction with local populations. In many parts of the world, missionaries were the first French men and women to work and live among indigenous societies. For all the celebration of France's secular "civilizing mission," it was more often than not religious workers who actually fulfilled the daily tasks of running schools, hospitals, and orphanages. While their work was often tied to small villages, missionaries' interactions had geopolitical implications. Focusing on many regions - from the Ottoman Empire and North America to Indochina and the Pacific Ocean - this book explores how France used missionaries' long connections with local communities as a means of political influence and justification for colonial expansion. In God's Empire offers readers both an overview of the major historical dimensions of the French evangelical enterprise, as well as an introduction to the theoretical and methodological challenges of placing French missionary work within the context of European, imperial, religious history, and world history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199875405
• Artikelnr.: 38152031

Autorenporträt

Owen White is Associate Professor of History, University of Delaware J.P. Daughton is Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University

Inhaltsangabe

* 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