Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange

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This book brings together fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonization. Bringing together the work of leading international scholars of mission and empire, the focus is on missions across the British Empire - including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific - within transnational and comparative perspectives. The topics include: collusion or opposition to colonial authorities, intercultural exchanges, the work of indigenous and local Christians in new churches, native evangelism and education, clashes between variant views of domesticity and parenting roles, and the place of gender in these transformations. Missionaries could be both implicated in the plot of colonial control, in ways seemingly contrary to Christian norms, or else play active roles as proponents of the social, economic, and political rights of their native brethren. Indigenous Christians themselves