God's empire : religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908

"In God's Empire", Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second British empire pr...

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Auteur principal : Carey Hilary M (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : God's empire : religion and colonialism in the British World, c.1801-1908 / Hilary M. Carey
Publié : Cambridge, New York : Cambridge University Press , cop. 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXIII-421 p.)
Sujets :
  • Part I. God's Empire: 1. Colonialism, colonization and Greater Britain; 2. Protestant nation to Christian Empire, 1801-1908
  • Part II. Colonial missionary societies: Introduction: colonial mission; 3. Anglicans; 4. Catholics; 5. Evangelical Anglicans; 6. Nonconformists; 7. Presbyterians
  • Part III. Colonial clergy: 8. Clergy; 9. St Augustine's College, Canterbury; 10. Missionary College of All Hallows, Drumcondra (Dublin)
  • Part IV. Promised lands: Introduction: emigrants and colonists; 11. Christian colonization and its critics; 12. Colonies; Conclusion