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Examines the impact of Christian missionaries on the state in the Third World. 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. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers
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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
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. - D.J. Shaw in DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW
This book covers an enormous geographical range, and a similarly lengthy historical period. - Paul Gifford in AFRICA
...it represents a useful quarry and will provoke readers to ask comparative questions. - Andrew Porter in JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL & COMMONWEALTH HISTORY
...they draw a telling conclusion: Christian missionary endeavour has been of immense importance in reshaping social and economic life in these states - but the missionary era is far from over. - Aylward Shorter in THE INTERNATIONAL BULLETIN OF MISSIONARY RESEARCH
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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.
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