Missionary Interests
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- ISBN 9781501774430
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2024
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions for the historical study of these zealous evangelists for their faith. Despite their sectarian differences, both groups of missionaries shared notions of dividing the world categorically along the lines of race, status, and relative exoticism, and both employed humanitarian outreach with designs to proselytize.
American missionaries occupied liminal spaces: between proselytizer and proselytized, feminine and masculine, colonizer and colonized. Taken together, the chapters in Missionary Interests dismantle easy characterizations of missions and conversion and offer an overlooked juxtaposition between Mormon and Protestant missionary efforts in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
David Golding is a historian of Mormonism and missions. His publications have previously appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender and World Religions and Their Missions.
Christopher Cannon Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University.
