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Pacifying Missions provides the first sustained examination of peace and missionary work in the context of the British Empire. It interrogates diverse missionary projects from Africa and the Pacific region, unfolding a variegated world of ideas, discourses, and actions. The volume yields compelling evidence for a reconsideration of peace as a vital focus for analysis in the history of Christian mission. It also reveals a landscape of peace that was plural, dynamic, and contested, worked out in specific contexts, and deeply entangled with understandings and experiences of violence. Contributors to this volume are: Geoffrey Troughton, Elizabeth Elbourne, Jane Samson, David Maxwell, Norman Etherington, Esme Cleall, Amy Stambach, Joanna Cruickshank, and Bronwyn Shepherd.

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Author:   Geoffrey Troughton
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   58
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9789004536784

ISBN 10:   9004536787
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   16 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Missions, Peace, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century  Geoffrey Troughton 2 Peace, Genocide, and Empire: The London Missionary Society and the San in Early Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa  Elizabeth Elbourne 3 Te Ngara’s Journey: The Gospel of Peace and the Melanesian Mission  Jane Samson 4 Maori Christianity, Missions, and the State in New Zealand Wars of the 1860s  Norman Etherington 5 Not Peace but a Sword: Missionaries, Humanitarianism, and Slavery in Late Nineteenth-Century Central Africa  David Maxwell 6 John Mackenzie’s “True Vision of the Future”: Imagining Peace in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa  Esme Cleall 7 “In the Interest of Peace, the Society Yielded”: Mission Growth and Retreat in Moshi-Kilimanjaro  Amy E. Stambach 8 Missionaries, Peacemaking, and the “Meeting of Laws” in Australia  Joanna Cruickshank and Bronwyn Shepherd 9 Missions and Peace in Prospect  Geoffrey Troughton Index

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Geoffrey Troughton, Ph.D. (2008), Massey University, is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His major publications include New Zealand Jesus (2011), Saints and Stirrers (2017), and Pursuing Peace in Godzone (2018).

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