Michael A. Rutz is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
"This splendid work, linking together religious, political, and
imperial topics, shows how evangelical Dissenters, and especially
the London Missionary Society, influenced not only Great Britain
but also the wider British Empire." --James J. Sack, University of
Illinois at Chicago
"While it has long been a commonplace to emphasize how missionaries
were agents of imperial exploitation, The British Zion compellingly
reveals the remarkable extent to which Congregationalists
championed the rights of Africans and Jamaicans in direct defiance
of the interests of British colonists. Rutz has brilliantly teased
out the connections between the theological and political concerns
of evangelical Dissenters in Britain and their missionary efforts
abroad." --Timothy Larsen, McManis Professor of Christian Thought,
Wheaton College
"The British Congregationalists in South Africa in the first half
of the nineteenth century provide a shining example of missionary
beneficence. They not only preached brotherhood, they practiced it:
that they fought and won the franchise for black Africans is proof
enough." --Richard Davis, Professor of History, Washington
University in St. Louis
This book is critical for students and general readers interested
in the work and development of world missions and Protestantism in
British history. It is also important for anyone wishing to study
the relationship between missionaries and colonial imperialism in
the 18th and 19th centuries. I commend it to each and every
potential reader. -- Mike Jones, United Church of Canada --
Theological Book Review
The British Zion exhibits Rutz's thorough work in the primary
sources and his skill in drawing connections between issues common
to both the metropole and colonies, and it provides a solid
contribution to the literature of mission studies and colonial
history. -- Kyle Welty -- Journal of Church and State (2012, 54:4)
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