In 'Sacred Webs', historian Chris White demonstrates how Chinese Protestants in Minnan, or the southern half of Fujian Province, fractured social ties and constructed and utilized new networks through churches, which served as nodes linking individuals into larger Protestant com…
This historical narrative of Protestantism in India examines responses by Tamil-speaking Hindus, Muslims, and Catholics to the evangelical Christianity introduced in the country by German Pietists. Drawing on concrete historical analysis and Tamil writings and archival materials…
Through focusing on the unintended by-products of New England Puritanism as a cultural transplant in the Levant, this book explores the socio-historical forces which account for the failure of early envoys' attempts to convert the 'native, ' population. Early failure in conversi…
The Protestant preoccupation with Spain -- The fellowship of dissent -- The development of dispensational missiology -- The awakening of Protestant interest in Spain as a mission field -- The first republic and the Protestant experience -- Spain and religious freedom, 1868-1875 …
Offers one of the most significant untold stories in the history of early modern religious encounters, marshaling wide-ranging research to shed light on the crucial role of Native Americans, Africans, and black slaves in Protestant missionary work.
As Protestantism expanded across the Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, most evangelists were not white Anglo-Americans, as scholars have long assumed, but members of the same groups that missionaries were trying to convert. Native Apostles offers one of…
