Global Protestant Missions

<p>The book investigates facets of global Protestantism through Anglican Quaker Episcopalian Moravian Lutheran Pietist and Pentecostal missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples and political reform endeavours in a global purview that spans the 1730s to the 1930s. The book uses key examples to trace both the local and the global impacts of this multi-denominational Christian movement.</p><p></p><p>The essays in this volume explore three of the critical ways in which Protestant communities were established and became part of a worldwide network: the founding of far-flung missions in which Western missionaries worked alongside enslaved and indigenous converts; the interface between Protestant outreach and political reform endeavours such as abolitionism; and the establishment of a global epistolary through print communication networks. </p><p></p><p>Demonstrating how Protestantism came to be both global and ecumenical this book will be a key resource for scholars of religious history religion and politics and missiology as well as those interested in issues of postcolonialism and imperialism. </p>