Taking Christianity to China: Alabama Missionaries in the Middle Kingdom, 1850-1950

by Gerald W. Berkley, Wayne Flynt, Gerald W. Berkley-Coats

Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Alabamians became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became confused and divided over the appropriateness of the missionary endeavor. Secular American intellectuals began to criticize missionaries as meddling do-gooders trying to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308334
• ISBN13: 9780817308339
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.5"