In God s Empire French Missionaries and the Modern World 1st Edition by Owen White, Daughton ISBN 0195396448 978-0195396447

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ISBN 10:  0195396448 

ISBN 13: 978-0195396447

Author: Owen White, J. P. Daughton 
A collection of original essays by leading scholars in the field, In God’s Empire examines the complex ways in which the spread of Christianity by French men and women shaped local communities, French national prowess, and global politics in the two centuries following the French Revolution. More than a story of religious proselytism, missionary activity was an essential feature of French contact and interaction with local populations. In many parts of the world, missionaries were the first French men and women to work and live among indigenous societies. For all the celebration of France’s secular “civilizing mission,” it was more often than not religious workers who actually fulfilled the daily tasks of running schools, hospitals, and orphanages. While their work was often tied to small villages, missionaries’ interactions had geopolitical implications. Focusing on many regions – from the Ottoman Empire and North America to Indochina and the Pacific Ocean – this book explores how France used missionaries’ long connections with local communities as a means of political influence and justification for colonial expansion.

Table of contents: 

1. Placing French Missionaries in the Modern World

2. French Missionaries in the Atlantic World

3. The Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the Middle East

4. East and Southeast Asia

5. Africa and Oceania

6. The Missionary Experience in British and French Empires

7. Select Bibliography

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