Publication

2000 - P. Lang, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

80,750 words, Guess

Page Count

323 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL663031M
  • ISBN-100820430633
  • OCLC Control Number36675953
  • Library of Congress Control Number97008542
  • Goodreads6619450

Classifications

  • DDC266/.023729206718
  • LCCBV3625.G82 R87 2000

Description

"The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists, ex-slaves who, four years after Emancipation (1838), established a witness in the Cameroons (West Africa) in cooperation with their British pastors and with the reluctant aid of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. Professor Russell analyzes the relationship between the undertaking of the mission and the new self-awareness of a freed people. The institutions created to achieve their aims are discussed and their fortunes are followed amid the chaotic ecclesiastical, economic, and political happenings consequent upon the Anglo/Hispanic rivalry at the time. The book is also a study of what happens when a mission-field becomes a mission agency with missionaries of its own."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryMissionsBaptistsChurch historyBlack BaptistsBaptists, BlackMissions, africa, west

Times

Series Statement

  • Research in religion and family ;

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