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Missions and Colonialism (Sandbox Version)[edit]

Yamamoto (Neesima) Yae, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima; pictured here with a foreign missionary, 19th century.
Source: Japanese Christian College

As we learned already earlier when exploring the 17th and 18th century, missions and their ambitious activities in the 19th century were not less prone to cooperate with the political forces of their home countries. In many cases it is painfully obvious that missionaries helped political agencies to support political foreign interests to strengthen the "empire". To understand the Christian mainstream 19th century we have again to go into the debate whether invading foreign countries and cultures with the gospel is legitimate, and whether mission has to go hand in hand with political interests of the day.

Please study the material below.
Write an essay about:
Why did missionaries and their sending mission agencies in many cases cooperate with their home country's political agencies?
Describe the discrepancy between the biblical "Great Commission" and the bloody reality.

--Inawe 20:01, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]