Anglicanism, Missions and Empire
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Published on 25. September 2025
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Paperback/Softback
308 pages
978-90-04-72747-2 (ISBN)
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In Anglicanism, Empire and Missions Rowan Strong offers fresh insights into Christian missions, illuminating both large-scale movements and smaller, local initiatives. Tracing the origins of Anglican missions back to the foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701, the work explores their evolution-from a transatlantic context in the eighteenth century to a truly global presence within the expanding British Empire of the nineteenth century. Contemporary Anglophone mission historiography has often overlooked Anglican missionary endeavours during this period, instead privileging the activism of Evangelical missions. This volume redresses the balance, revealing the far-reaching influence of Anglican mission leaders and societies and restoring their rightful place in the broader history of Christian missions.
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
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431 gr
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978-90-04-72747-2 (9789004727472)
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Rowan Strong, Emeritus Professor of Church History, Murdoch University, and Professor of Church History, Wollaston Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia, has published extensively on Anglicanism and the British Empire, including Victorian Christianity & Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840-c.1914 (2017).
Content
Abbreviations
Introduction: Anglicanism in the Globalising Nineteenth Century
1 Continuity and Change in Anglican Missionary Theology: Thomas Bray to the World Missionary Conference
?1?Bray and the Importance of Religious Knowledge
?2?Bray and the Transforming Religious Knowledge Paradigm
?3?An Enlightenment Mission
?4?Anglican Continuity - Educational Mission and the 1910 World Missionary Conference
?5?Anglican Discontinuity: Attitudes toward Tribal Peoples
?6?Liturgy Rather than Education and Reason
2 Anglican Imperialism and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701-1714
3 Conservative Anglican Reformism: High Church Involvement in the East India Company's Charter Renewal 1812-1813
?1?Introduction
?2?High Church Engagement with India
?3?Initiating SPCK Involvement in the Charter Renewal Campaign
?4?SPCK Campaign Initiatives
?5?SPCK, India, and High Church Reformism
4 A New Global Paradigm for Anglicanism: the Colonial Bishoprics Fund 1840-1841
5 Church and State in Western Australia 1827-1857
6 High-Church Slum Ministry in Glasgow 1845-1851
7 The Oxford Movement and the British Empire
8 Bishop George Selwyn of New Zealand and the British Empire
?1?Selwyn and the Imperial Network
?2?Personal Connections
?3?Edward Coleridge and the Eton Connection
?4?Ecclesiastical Connections
?5?The Cross-Colonial Connection
?6?The Connection with W. E. Gladstone
?7?Colonial and Imperial Networks
?8?From the Colonial Periphery to the Imperial Centre
9 High Church and Evangelical Anglicans in Colonial New Zealand
10 The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Nineteenth-Century Expansion of Anglicanism
?1?Historiography
?2?Mission in Scotland
?3?Africa
?4?British and Local Peoples in the Episcopalian African Mission
?5?The Chanda Mission in India
?6?Conclusions
11 Anglo-Catholic Missions in Nineteenth-Century India
?1?The Oxford Movement and Mission
?2?The Historiography of Anglo-Catholic Missions
?3?The 1869 Twelve Day Mission to London
?4?Fr Benson and the 1869 Mission to London
?5?Edward Pusey, Fr Benson, and SSJE Mission
?6?Fr Benson and the SSJE Missions to India
?7?Nilkanth/Nehemiah Goreh and the SSJE Mission
?8?The Indore Mission
?9?The Significance of the SSJE Missions
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Anglicanism in the Globalising Nineteenth Century
1 Continuity and Change in Anglican Missionary Theology: Thomas Bray to the World Missionary Conference
?1?Bray and the Importance of Religious Knowledge
?2?Bray and the Transforming Religious Knowledge Paradigm
?3?An Enlightenment Mission
?4?Anglican Continuity - Educational Mission and the 1910 World Missionary Conference
?5?Anglican Discontinuity: Attitudes toward Tribal Peoples
?6?Liturgy Rather than Education and Reason
2 Anglican Imperialism and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1701-1714
3 Conservative Anglican Reformism: High Church Involvement in the East India Company's Charter Renewal 1812-1813
?1?Introduction
?2?High Church Engagement with India
?3?Initiating SPCK Involvement in the Charter Renewal Campaign
?4?SPCK Campaign Initiatives
?5?SPCK, India, and High Church Reformism
4 A New Global Paradigm for Anglicanism: the Colonial Bishoprics Fund 1840-1841
5 Church and State in Western Australia 1827-1857
6 High-Church Slum Ministry in Glasgow 1845-1851
7 The Oxford Movement and the British Empire
8 Bishop George Selwyn of New Zealand and the British Empire
?1?Selwyn and the Imperial Network
?2?Personal Connections
?3?Edward Coleridge and the Eton Connection
?4?Ecclesiastical Connections
?5?The Cross-Colonial Connection
?6?The Connection with W. E. Gladstone
?7?Colonial and Imperial Networks
?8?From the Colonial Periphery to the Imperial Centre
9 High Church and Evangelical Anglicans in Colonial New Zealand
10 The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Nineteenth-Century Expansion of Anglicanism
?1?Historiography
?2?Mission in Scotland
?3?Africa
?4?British and Local Peoples in the Episcopalian African Mission
?5?The Chanda Mission in India
?6?Conclusions
11 Anglo-Catholic Missions in Nineteenth-Century India
?1?The Oxford Movement and Mission
?2?The Historiography of Anglo-Catholic Missions
?3?The 1869 Twelve Day Mission to London
?4?Fr Benson and the 1869 Mission to London
?5?Edward Pusey, Fr Benson, and SSJE Mission
?6?Fr Benson and the SSJE Missions to India
?7?Nilkanth/Nehemiah Goreh and the SSJE Mission
?8?The Indore Mission
?9?The Significance of the SSJE Missions
Bibliography
Index