Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-241) and index

Introduction / Andrew Porter -- Atonement, sin, and empire, 1880-1914 / D. W. Bebbington -- Imperial Christianity? : Bishop Montgomery and the foreign missions of the Church of England, 1895-1915 / Steven Maughan -- Church, state, and the hierarchy of "civilization" : the making of the "Missions and governments" report at the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 / Brian Stanley -- Christian missions and mid-nineteenth-century change in attitudes to race : the African experience / Ancrew C. Ross -- Missionaries, science, and the environment in nineteenth-century Africa / John M. MacKenzie -- Rethinking gender roles : the field experience of women missionaries in South Africa / Deborah Gaitskell -- British missions and Indian nationalism, 1880-1908 : imitation and autonomy in Calcutta and Madras / Chandra Mallampalli -- Rethinking mission in China : James Hudson Taylor and Timothy Richard / Lauren F. Pfister -- "Who did they think they were?" : some reflections from a theologian on grand narratives and identity in the history of missions / John W. de Gruchy