Imperial Conquest missions don’t work anymore
Wether we like it or not, the world’s religious landscape owes much to the long history of European imperialism. But the story of empire and missions is much more complex than we might assume, and some common assumptions need debunking. In the case of some of the largest and most enduring empires, the relationship between faith and empire was strongly counterintuitive.
To some degree, all the European empires claimed religious justification for their existence, citing a command to extend the light of God’s kingdom into regions of pagan ignorance. But that is very different from forcing or demanding that their new subjects accept Christianity. The Spanish and Portuguese certainly did impose their faith, and we must ruefully admit their success in accomplishing this. Just glance at a map of the world’s Catholic populations.
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Chapter I – The Missionary Movement where it came from
Chapter II – Functions of the Missionary
Chapter III – Dr. Philip – “Defendre of the Hottentots”
Chapter V – Political role of the mission
Chapter VI – The Wesleyans take a hand
Chapter VII – “The Missionary Charter”
Chapter VIII – “Christianity and Civilization”
Chapter X – Triumph of disunity (1)
Chapter X – Triumph of disunity (2)
Chapter XI – Completion of military conquest
Chapter XII – End and Beginning
NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
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