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In God's empire : French missionaries and the modern world / edited by Owen White and J.P. Daughton.

Contributor(s): White, Owen (Associate professor of History) | Daughton, J. P. (James Patrick)
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195396447 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0195396448 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Catholic Church -- Missions -- History | Missions, French -- HistoryDDC classification: 266/.02344 LOC classification: BV2210 | .I5 2012Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Placing French Missionaries in the modern world / Owen White and J.P. Daughton -- When Catholic worlds collide : French missionaries and ecclesiastical politics in Louisiana, 1803-1845 / Michael Pasquier -- Creating "the people of God" : French utopian dreams and the moralization of Africans and slaves / Troy Feay -- Bretons in conquest of a former colony : French Catholic missionaries in Haiti, 1860-1915 / Philippe Delisle -- Charity begins abroad : the Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire / Sarah A. Curtis -- Muslim princes, female missionaries, and trans-mediterranean migrations : the Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition in Tunisia, c. 1840-1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith --
Missionary militarism? The armed brothers of the Sahara and Léopold Louis Joubert in the Congo / Bertrand Taithe -- Flourishing in exile : French missionaries in Syria and Lebanon under Mandate Rule / Jennifer M. Dueck -- Measuring Catholic faith in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century northeast China / Ji Li -- A colonial sacred union? Church, state, and the great war in colonial Vietnam / Charles Keith -- When French Protestants replaced British missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; or, how to avoid the colonial trap / Jean-François Zorn -- "Catechist war" in interwar French Cameroon / Kenneth J. Orosz -- A mission in transition : race, politics, and the decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal / Elizabeth A. Foster -- Afterword : Missionary experience in the British and French empires / Norman Etherington.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Placing French Missionaries in the modern world / Owen White and J.P. Daughton -- When Catholic worlds collide : French missionaries and ecclesiastical politics in Louisiana, 1803-1845 / Michael Pasquier -- Creating "the people of God" : French utopian dreams and the moralization of Africans and slaves / Troy Feay -- Bretons in conquest of a former colony : French Catholic missionaries in Haiti, 1860-1915 / Philippe Delisle -- Charity begins abroad : the Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire / Sarah A. Curtis -- Muslim princes, female missionaries, and trans-mediterranean migrations : the Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition in Tunisia, c. 1840-1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith --

Missionary militarism? The armed brothers of the Sahara and Léopold Louis Joubert in the Congo / Bertrand Taithe -- Flourishing in exile : French missionaries in Syria and Lebanon under Mandate Rule / Jennifer M. Dueck -- Measuring Catholic faith in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century northeast China / Ji Li -- A colonial sacred union? Church, state, and the great war in colonial Vietnam / Charles Keith -- When French Protestants replaced British missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; or, how to avoid the colonial trap / Jean-François Zorn -- "Catechist war" in interwar French Cameroon / Kenneth J. Orosz -- A mission in transition : race, politics, and the decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal / Elizabeth A. Foster -- Afterword : Missionary experience in the British and French empires / Norman Etherington.

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