Religious Literature and Discourses of Empire: The Scottish Presbyterian Foreign Mission Movement

Abstract

That foreign missions played a not insignificant role within the British Empire has been increasingly recognized as the body of scholarship on missions grows. Many scholars in this field have aimed to evaluate the impact of foreign missions on the peoples with whom they worked, and to elucidate the nature of the encounter between missionaries and indigenous peoples in colonial territories. More recently the impact of foreign missions on people in Britain has been a focus of research, and there is growing evidence that the foreign mission movement was instrumental in shaping understandings of empire and of the other peoples governed by the imperial state, as well as in shaping the construction of identities in Britain. 1 This chapter discusses the ways in which missionary societies and the Presbyterian churches mediated an understanding of empire for people in Scotland. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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