Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Introduction: Christianity and the End of empire/ Brian Stanley

pt. 1 Missionary traditions, national loyalties, and the universal gospel

The clash of nationalism and universalism within twentieth-century missionary spirituality/ Adrian Hastings

Missionaries without empire: German Protestant missionary efforts in the Interwar Period (1919-1939)/ Hartmut Lehmann

Missions and Afrikaner Nationalism: Soundings in the prehistory of Apartheid/ Richard Elphick

The universities' mission to Central Africa: Anglo-Catholicism and the Twentieth-Century colonial encounter/ Andrew Porter

pt. 2 Emergent Christian and national identities in Asia and Africa

Who is an Indian? Dilemmas of national identity at the end of the British Raj in India/ Judith M. Brown

China and Christianity: perspectives on missions, nationalism, and the state in the Republican period, 1912-1949/ Kache-Yip

Foreign missions and indigenous Protestant leaders in China, 1920-1955: identity and loyalty in an age of powerful nationalism/ Daniel H. Bays

The rhetoric of the word: Bible translation and Mau Mau in colonial Central Kenya/ Derek Peterson

pt. 3 Christian responses to crises at the end of empire

Speaking for the unvoiced? British missionaries and aspects of African Nationalism, 1949-1959/ John Stuart

Church an state in crisis: the deposition of the Kabaka of Buganda, 1953-1955/ Caroline Howell

Moral re-armament in Africa in the Era of decolonization/ Philip Boobbyer

Apartheid, mission, and independent Africa: From Pretoria to Kampala with Hannah Stanton/ Deborah Gaitskell

Passive revolution and its Saboteurs: African Christian initiative in the era of decolonization, 1955-1975/ Ogbu U. Kalu