Description
Book SynopsisThis book tells the history of Christian missionary encounters with non-Christians, as British and American missionaries spread out from Delhi into the heartland of Punjab—a part of the world where there were no Christians at all until the advent of British imperial rule in the early 19th century.
Trade Review" . . . [H]e is one of the few active scholars in this field to bring all these perspectives into a single focus. Analytically as well as methodologically, this book has moved the cutting edge of the field." --
Victorian Studies"This is an excellent, well-researched book, rich in detail and anecdote, and filled with valuable and original information and analysis about European Christian/Indian Christian (and non-Christian) interaction. " -- Roger B. Beck * Eastern Illinois University *
"....[A] complex, variegated, and compelling history of the tensions between the Christian universalism of teh missionaries and the indigenous politics of status and religious reform, as well as focused consideration of the pivotal position of cultural and racial difference under colonial rule." --
Victorian Studies"This richly detailed book references large amounts of archival material and will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of Christian missions outside the West." --
Religious Studies Review"His work moves beyond presenting missionary activity as a simple narrative of progress; instead, Cox helps to demonstrate the complex development of missions and missionary activities in an imperial context, especially the competing realities of imperial necessity and missionary desires." --
Journal of the American Oriental Society
