Protestant Missions and Local Encounters in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This book makes visible an important but largely neglected aspect of Christian missions: its transnational character. An interdisciplinary group of scholars present case-studies on missions and individual missionaries, unified by a common vision of expanding a Christian Empire "e;to the ends of the world"e;. Examples range from Madagascar, South-Africa, Palestine, Turkey, Tibet, Germany, Norway, t...