Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire
It is widely recognized that the period from the 1870s to the 1920s witnessed the most substantial convergence in modern history between the two motivational dynamics of Western imperialism and the Christian missionary endeavor to reshape the non-Western world in an evangelical image. This convergen...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-145 |
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| Summary: | It is widely recognized that the period from the 1870s to the 1920s witnessed the most substantial convergence in modern history between the two motivational dynamics of Western imperialism and the Christian missionary endeavor to reshape the non-Western world in an evangelical image. This convergence, however, is most frequently associated by scholars with studies of the role of British Protestant missions in the British empire and is often interpreted as an inevitable and highly regrettable by-product of the overflow of the ascendant nationalism characteristic of high modernity into the sphere of religion. The significance of Ian Tyrrell's book is that it puts both of these assumptions into question. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr023 |