Ogbu Kalu

Converting Colonialism

Evangelism & Missions

“In The Waste Land T. S. Eliot ruminated about the shadow that falls between the ideal or vision and the reality or performance. Dana Robert has mobilized an array of mission historians to recapture the passion, vision, and dreams behind the missionary enterprise whose force reshaped the twentieth century. . . Robert and the other experts in this volume demonstrate the changing contours of the historiography and recapture the enduring legacies of the visionaries. This is not a simple makeover of the missionary image; rather, the depth of research, breadth and balance of perspectives, and global coverage combine to make this an important contribution to the story about the responses of communities in the southern hemisphere to the power of the gospel.”

Mary Slessor—Everybody's Mother

History & Biography

“Founding Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, University of Edinburgh, Scotland; formerly Guest Professor of Ecumenics and Mission at Princeton Theological Seminary and Visiting Professor of World Christianity at Harvard and Yale Universities. Mary Slessor modeled a heart for the vulnerable, poor, sick, orphaned, and marginalized. Both she and indigenes were transformed by their encounter . . . This volume shows the importance of her legacy in spite of a close relationship with the colonial enterprise.”