Converting Colonialism

<DIV><B>Series:</B><a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/CategoryCenter.aspx?CategoryId=SE!SHCM style=color: rgb(55 135 109); font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; font-family: Verdana Arial sans-serif; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(248 245 238);> Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)</a><BR /><BR /> In this volume leading historians of Christianity in the non-Western world examine the relationship between missionaries and nineteenth-century European colonialism and between indigenous converts and the colonial contexts in which they lived. Forced to operate within a political framework of European expansionism that lay outside their power to control missionaries and early converts variously attempted to co-opt certain aspects of colonialism and to change what seemed prejudicial to gospel values.<BR /><BR /> These contributors are <I>the</I> leading historians in their fields and the concrete historical situations that they explore show the real complexity of missionary efforts to "convert" colonialism.<BR /><BR /><B>Contributors:</B> J. F. Ade Ajayi<BR /> Roy Bridges<BR /> Richard Elphick<BR /> Eleanor Jackson<BR /> Daniel Jeyaraj<BR /> Andrew Porter<BR /> Dana L. Robert<BR /> R. G. Tiedemann<BR /> C. Peter Williams</DIV>