Religion
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Abstract
This collection of essays on the interaction of missions and nationalism in the era of independence/postcolonialism originated at a conference organized by the Currents in World Christianity Project at the Cambridge Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies in 2000. The contributors teach history, theology, and mission in universities in both Great Britain and the United States. The chapter by Adrian Hastings was one of his last and provides the mature musings of a pioneering scholar in the field of African Christianity. These studies fill a gap in the study of mission and the role of religion during this critical era. Together these essays demonstrate the ambiguity of mission response to the end of colonialism in a variety of circumstances. The theoretical framework for this collection is the complex interactions—rather than the oppositions—between the national and the international mission impulses.