Silent No Longer: The Roots of Racism in Mission

This article, arising from the work of the Council for World Mission's Legacies of Slavery project, investigates the historical roots of racism present in the work of the London Missionary Society (LMS). It offers an analysis of the ways in which a missionary society colluded with Empire in con...

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Subtitles:Global Manifestations of Racism Today
Main Author: Cruchley, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2020]
In: The ecumenical review
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 98-107
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBF British Isles
NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Slavery
B London Missionary Society
B Council for World Mission
B Empire
B Racism
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Summary:This article, arising from the work of the Council for World Mission's Legacies of Slavery project, investigates the historical roots of racism present in the work of the London Missionary Society (LMS). It offers an analysis of the ways in which a missionary society colluded with Empire in constructing a racist hierarchy that it imposed on White people at home in the United Kingdom as much as it did on African and African descendant peoples. It acknowledges the personal and structural benefits that the LMS and its officers made from enslavement and their efforts to silence calls for emancipation, and offers a class and gender perspective on the forces shaping this distinctively British organization.
ISSN:1758-6623
Contains:Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/erev.12490