Christian Mission – How Christianity Became a World Religion

List of Illustrations.
<p>Acknowledgments.</p>
<p>Introduction.</p>
<p>Part I: The Making of a World Religion: Christian Mission through the Ages:.</p>
<p>1. From Christ to Christendom.</p>
<p>From Jerusalem into All the World .</p>
<p>The Creation of Catholic Europe, 400 1400.</p>
<p>2. Vernaculars and Volunteers, 1450 .</p>
<p>Bible Translation and the Roots of Modern Missions.</p>
<p>The Revitalization of Catholic Missions.</p>
<p>The Beginnings of Protestant Missions.</p>
<p>Voluntarism and Mission.</p>
<p>Protestant Missionary Activities in the Nineteenth Century.</p>
<p>3. Global Networking for the Nations, 1910 .</p>
<p>The Growth of Global Networks.</p>
<p>International Awakenings.</p>
<p>Awakening Internationalism.</p>
<p>Post–Colonial Rejection of Christian Mission.</p>
<p>Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Mission.</p>
<p>Part II: Themes in Mission History:.</p>
<p>4. The Politics of Missions: Empire, Human Rights, and Land.</p>
<p>Critiques of Missions.</p>
<p>Missionaries and Human Rights.</p>
<p>Missionaries and the Land.</p>
<p>Missions and Ecology.</p>
<p>5. Women in World Mission: Purity, Motherhood, and Women s Well–Being.</p>
<p>Women as Missionaries.</p>
<p>Purity and Gender Neutrality.</p>
<p>The Mission of Motherhood.</p>
<p>Women s Well–Being and Social Change.</p>
<p>6. Conversion and Christian Community: The Missionary from St. Patrick to Bernard Mizeki.</p>
<p>Who Was St. Patrick?.</p>
<p>Bernard Mizeki, Apostle to the Shona .</p>
<p>Missionaries and the Formation of Communal Christian Identities.</p>
<p>7. Postscript: Multicultural Missions in Global Context.</p>
<p>Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index</p>