Dana L Roberts is Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and History of Mission at Boston University School of Theology.
Lamin Sanneh
-- Yale University
"The colonial framework has been the matrix of much historical and
theological reconstruction of Christianity abroad. Yet recent
scholarship has helped to move the subject beyond its colonial
domestication. The collected essays in this book probe this
colonial theme and its meaning for indigenous agency and
acculturation. In some instructive cases it is not difficult to see
how colonial rule played an ambivalent role by promoting missions
while impeding -- and thereby provoking -- leadership aspirations
among converts. These essays offer plenty of food for thought."
Ogbu Kalu
-- McCormick Theological Seminary
"In The Waste Land T. S. Eliot ruminated about the shadow that
falls between the ideal or vision and the reality or performance.
Dana Robert has mobilized an array of mission historians to
recapture the passion, vision, and dreams behind the missionary
enterprise whose force reshaped the twentieth century. . . Robert
and the other experts in this volume demonstrate the changing
contours of the historiography and recapture the enduring legacies
of the visionaries. This is not a simple makeover of the missionary
image; rather, the depth of research, breadth and balance of
perspectives, and global coverage combine to make this an important
contribution to the story about the responses of communities in the
southern hemisphere to the power of the gospel." Daniel H. Bays
-- Calvin College
"Converting Colonialism, ably edited by Dana Robert, is part of the
fine Eerdmans series Studies in the History of Christian Missions.
This volume is one of the best. It contains some of the most
perceptive writing in recent years on the relationship between
colonialism and missions in the two centuries before 1914. This is
both a sad and a hopeful story, convincingly told by the nine
distinguished authors, whose essays range from mission theory to
compellingly interesting case studies from Africa, India, China,
and the home front. The scholarship here is outstanding; some of
these studies will be reprinted, I am sure, and may well become
classics."
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