Pacifying Missions: Christianity, Violence, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Preface
	Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
1 Missions, Peace, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century
	1 Introduction
	2 Gospels of Peace
	3 Tensions of Violence and Peace
	4 Pacifications
	5 Theologies
	6 Enactments
	7 Conclusion
2 Peace, Genocide, and Empire: The London Missionary Society
	1 Introduction
	2 Peace, Missions, and the Coming Reign of Glory
	3 “The Most Savage and Ferocious of all the People who are Known in This Country”
	4 Missions and Commandoes in the Transgariep Region
	5 Killing Grounds: Missions to the San
	6 Child Trading and the Ambivalences of Humanitarianism
	7 John Philip and Researches in South Africa
	8 Conclusions
3 Te Ngara’s Journey: The Gospel of Peace and the Melanesian Mission
	1 Introduction
	2 Te Ngara and the Melanesian Mission
	3 The Gospel of Peace
	4 Te Ngara’s Journal
	5 Mota: Haven of Peace
	6 The Ghosts of Santa Maria
	7 The Eye of the Beholder
	8 Predisposed Allies at Ysabel?
	9 Mene: Embodying Peace
	10 Peacemaking at Home
	11 Conclusions
4 Māori Christianity, Missions, and the State in New Zealand Wars of the 1860s
	1 Introduction
	2 Evangelisation, Settlement, and Land
	3 Christianity and the Conduct of War
	4 Archangels, Prophets, and New Creeds Reframe the War
	5 Tītokowaru, Te Kooti, and the War that Would Not End
	6 Messengers of Peace?
5 Not Peace but a Sword: Missionaries, Humanitarianism
	1 Introduction
	2 Christianity, Humanitarianism, and Empire
	3 New Models of Mission
	4 Mission and Slavery in West Central Africa
	5 The Plymouth Brethren and Problems of Conflict and Violence
	6 Post Script and Conclusion
6 John Mackenzie’s “True Vision of the Future”
	1 Introduction
	2 John Mackenzie and His Political Landscape
	3 Practices and Discourses of Peace
	4 Austral Africa: Mackenzie’s Vision of Peace and Imperialism
	5 Peace and Racialisation
	6 Conclusion
7 “In the Interest of Peace, the Society Yielded”: Mission Growth and Retreat in Moshi-Kilimanjaro
	1 Introduction
	2 Respite, Peace, and Power in Kilimanjaro
	3 Creating an “African Asylum” for Slaves and Children
	4 Yielding for Peace
	5 Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
8 Missionaries, Peacemaking, and the “Meeting of Laws” in Australia
	1 Colonising, the “Contest of Laws”, and Conflict
	2 Missionary “Peacemaking” on a Colonial Mission: The Case of John Bulmer
	3 Peacemaking on a Twentieth-Century Mission: T. T. Webb at Milingimbi
	4 Conclusions
9 Missions and Peace in Prospect
Index