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Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850

by Sujit Sivasundaram

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Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book changes this narrative by offering the first account of the relationship between nineteenth-century... Read more
Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book changes this narrative by offering the first account of the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world. At focus are the intrepid missionaries of the London Missionary Society who reverently surveyed the oceans and islands of the Pacific and instructed converts to observe nature in order to interpret God''s designs. Sujit Sivasundaram argues that the knowledge that these missionaries practiced functioned as a popular science that was inextricably linked with religious expansion. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.59 in
Print pages258
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date March 3, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521188883
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Sujit Sivasundaram
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Sujit Sivasundaram was born and educated in Sri Lanka. He came to Cambridge in 1994 to study engineering and then natural sciences and history and philosophy of science. He has taught at LSE, EHESS in...

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