Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-290) and index.

Mission reports from South India and their impact on the Western mind : the Tranquebar Mission of the eighteenth century / Daniel Jeyaraj -- The Christian vision and secular imperialism : missionaries, geography, and the approach to East Africa, c. 1844-1890 / Roy Bridges -- Evangelicalism, Islam, and millennial expectation in the nineteenth century / Andrew Porter -- The Church Missionary Society and the indigenous church in the second half of the nineteenth century : the defense and destruction of the Venn ideals / C. Peter Williams -- Evangelical missions and racial "equalization" in South Africa, 1890-1914 / Richard Elphick -- The "Christian home" as a cornerstone of Anglo-American missionary thought and practice / Dana L. Robert -- From Krishna Pal to Lal Behari Dey : Indian builders of the church in Bengal, 1800-1894 / Eleanor Jackson -- Indigenous agency, religious protectorates, and Chinese interests : the expansion of Christianity in nineteenth-century China / R.G. Tiedemann -- A new Christian politics? : the mission-educated elite in West African politics / J.F.A. Ajayi.