| Reluctant or Radical Revolutionaries?: Evangelical Missionaries and Afro-Jamaican Character, 1834-1870 Contributor(s): Bolt, Cawley (Author), Briggs, John (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1506477429 ISBN-13: 9781506477428 Publisher: Fortress Press OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Evangelism - Religion | Christian Ministry - Missions - Religion | Christianity - History |
| Dewey: 243 |
| Physical Information: 287 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study is based on extensive research that challenges traditional ways of understanding some evangelical missionaries of nineteenth-century Jamaica and calls for revision of those views. It highlights the strength and character of persons facing various challenges of life in their effort to be faithful to the guiding principles of their existence. It gives an account of evangelical missionaries fulfilling their mission to the black people of Jamaica as ex-slaves as they simultaneously contend with hostility from the elites of society. It also tells of the Afro-Jamaicans who rejected unacceptable imposition from the missionaries while contending with challenges from plantation owners and others in Jamaican society. |
