This article looks at two different missionary projects separated by space and time: British Protestant missions to Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century; and Irish Roman Catholic missions to Africa in the 1920 and 1930s. It argues that in both cases missionary discourses were strongly influenced by prevailing public attitudes towards the 'other', in the earlier case the Irish, in the later case, the Africans. Using evidence from a range of contemporary mission publications, the article highlights the similarity between British Protestant efforts to 'colonise' Ireland in religious terms and later Irish Catholic attempts to create a 'Spiritual Empire' in Africa in the context of the recently-formed Irish Free State and in contrast to the ost...
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–19...
Obscured by the passage of time and the international campaign against apartheid, South Africa ranks...
The Holy Ghost Congregation (Spiritans) to which I belong is an international missionary order, with...
Cet article analyse les conséquences du contrôle exercé par l’Église catholique sur le système d’édu...
This article traces the parallel histories of the Catholic and Protestant missionary movements in th...
Drawing on largely unexplored archival and published sources in Ireland, France, Britain, United Sta...
This article is a revised and expanded version of my inaugural lecture as Dixie Professor of Ecclesi...
Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the colonial worlds were not saved by divisi...
In the aftermath of the Kulturkampf, involvement in the German colonial project provided an opportun...
This article reviews the reform of popular piety, both Protestant and Catholic, in Ireland between 1...
The article traces the transformation of the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) from 188...
The Catholic Church in recent times has had to look more and more towards the Churches of the South ...
Christianity was meant to be one of the most potent weapons in the armory of European Imperialism. J...
The missionary practice and the African feeling of missionary societies such as the CM. S., the W.M....
Ireland’s long and contested status as an internal colony of Britain has been important in the histo...
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–19...
Obscured by the passage of time and the international campaign against apartheid, South Africa ranks...
The Holy Ghost Congregation (Spiritans) to which I belong is an international missionary order, with...
Cet article analyse les conséquences du contrôle exercé par l’Église catholique sur le système d’édu...
This article traces the parallel histories of the Catholic and Protestant missionary movements in th...
Drawing on largely unexplored archival and published sources in Ireland, France, Britain, United Sta...
This article is a revised and expanded version of my inaugural lecture as Dixie Professor of Ecclesi...
Far too little attention has been paid to the fact that the colonial worlds were not saved by divisi...
In the aftermath of the Kulturkampf, involvement in the German colonial project provided an opportun...
This article reviews the reform of popular piety, both Protestant and Catholic, in Ireland between 1...
The article traces the transformation of the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) from 188...
The Catholic Church in recent times has had to look more and more towards the Churches of the South ...
Christianity was meant to be one of the most potent weapons in the armory of European Imperialism. J...
The missionary practice and the African feeling of missionary societies such as the CM. S., the W.M....
Ireland’s long and contested status as an internal colony of Britain has been important in the histo...
This article examines the lives of Irish-born women religious around the world in the period 1840–19...
Obscured by the passage of time and the international campaign against apartheid, South Africa ranks...
The Holy Ghost Congregation (Spiritans) to which I belong is an international missionary order, with...