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Metropoles and Colonials Metropoles and Colonials
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A Missionary Age A Missionary Age
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Molding British Christians: Evangelicals and the Laboring Classes Molding British Christians: Evangelicals and the Laboring Classes
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Smiling Hypocrisy? Smiling Hypocrisy?
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Too Established, Too Churched: The Church Missionary Society and the Hierarchy Too Established, Too Churched: The Church Missionary Society and the Hierarchy
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The Church Missionary Society and Public Performance The Church Missionary Society and Public Performance
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The Missionary Papers' Construction of Paganism The Missionary Papers' Construction of Paganism
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Paganism and Pedagogy Paganism and Pedagogy
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Pence and Pounds Pence and Pounds
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2 The Other Without and the Other Within
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Published:April 2005
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Abstract
This chapter examines the genesis of the missionary movement in Great Britain and the strategies for proselytization adopted by upper class, evangelical Christianity. Situated at the center of colonial power, such figures as William Wilberforce and Hannah More helped launch a comprehensive evangelization of Britain and India alike that employed the benighted pagan and vulgar factory laborer as reflections of one another, particularly in Sunday school literature. Such an approach clearly illustrates how modern forms of colonial encounter took place not along avenues of diffusion between metropole and colony, but under an umbrella of power relations and signs shared by those in Britain and India who would be mutually transformed by the experience. Missionaries for such groups as the Church Missionary Society viewed the working classes of Britain not only as sources of income and energy, but also as targets of the very proselytization they were preparing for India. The Church of England’s own struggle to address and accommodate the working poor marginalized by industrialization and high-church polity accounts for much of the style and scope of its missionary societies.
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