Remembering Jamestown: Hard Questions About Christian Mission

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For lots of Americans, Christian missionary efforts have regularly involved distant and exotic places. From time to time, on the other hand, we will learn more about missions and interreligious engagement by taking a look in our own backyard. This selection of essays deriving from a consultation on missionary history and attitudes in colonial Jamestown, Virginia, explores long-standing assumptions related to Christian mission by paying attention to Native American voices. What were the ideologies and theologies that motivated early Virginia colonists? How did certain understandings of mission and church provide strengthen and legitimacy for invasion and exploitation? What were, and are, the responses of indigenous populations, and how will have to Christian mission to Native Americans continue in light of this history? This book addresses these still very relevant questions and explores ways in which new understandings of Christian mission are needed in the expanding religious and cultural diversity of the twenty-first century.

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