Georgia State University ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University History Theses Department of History 7-25-2006 Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland Kim Caroline Sanecki Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses Part of the History Commons Recommended Citation Sanecki, Kim Caroline, "Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/10 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of History at ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in History Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN MISSIONS, RACE AND EMPIRE: THE WORLD MISSIONARY CONFERENCE OF 1910, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND by KIM SANECKI Under the Direction of Ian Fletcher ABSTRACT This thesis explores prevailing and changing attitudes among Protestant Christians as manifested in the World Missionary Conference of 1910, held in Edinburgh, Scotland. It compares the conference to missionary literature to demonstrate how well it fit the context of the missionary endeavor during the Edwardian era. It examines the issues of race and empire in the thinking of conference participants. It pays particular attention to the position of West Africa and West Africans in conference deliberations. It suggests that the conference, which took place soon after the scramble for empire and just before World War I and the subsequent upsurge of nationalism and anti-colonialism, offers a valuable historical perspective on the uneven nature of globalizing Christianity.