Commerce and Christianity’
The Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth-Century Missionary Slogan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8955977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Porter (0000-0001-8315-7932, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 597-621 |
| Publication date | 1985-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00003320 |
| OpenAlex | W2120244459 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 21 |
‘“What,” some simple-minded man might say, “is the connection between the Gospel and commerce?”’ Speaking in Leeds in May 1860 on behalf of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, Bishop Samuel Wilberforce was characteristically robust with his rhetorical question and no less direct in furnishing the answer. ‘There is a great connection between them. In the first place, there is little hope of promoting commerce in Africa, unless Christianity is planted in it; and, in the next place, there is very little ground for hoping that Christianity will be able to make its proper way unless we can establish a lawful commerce in the country’. Britain's part in forging the connexion was abundantly clear. It was effect of training the human race to a degree of excellence which it could never attain in non-Christian countries', giving ‘value to life’, ‘dignity to labour’ and ‘security to possession’, with the result that a Christian people would tend to be ‘a wealth-producing people, an exporting people and so a commercial people’
Art · Christianity · Dignity · Excellence · Gospel · Literature · Political science · Possession (linguistics · Rhetorical question · Slogan · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious studies
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CMS Niger Mission Agents’ Field Practice
Between Benevolence and Inevitability
Religions, poverty reduction and global development institutions
The Gospel of Science and American Evangelism in Late Ottoman Beirut
Heathens, Slaves and Aborigines
Recasting Poor Children
Missionary Writing and Empire, 1800–1860
How the East Was Won
Religion and empire
Religion, Difference, and the Limits of British Imperial History
The nineteenth century liberal tradition and the English School historical narrative
Schooling on the Missionary Frontier
Cultural imperialism’ and protestant missionary enterprise, 1780–1914
Scottish missions and education in nineteenth‐century India
Joseph Wolff (1795–1862)—The Making of an Englishman
Post‐Colonialism, Orientalism, and Understanding
Agentive role of government in African education
Sir John Gladstone and the Debate over the Amelioration of Slavery in the British West Indies in the 1820s
Politics and Ideology in the Early East India Company-State
Blood, Money and Endless Paper
The Archaeology of Missions in Australasia
Caste, space, and schooling in nineteenth century South India
Justice to India – Prosperity to England – Freedom to the Slave!” Humanitarian and Moral Reform Campaigns on India, Aborigines and American Slavery
Rescuing Fijian women? The British anti‐slavery proclamation of 1852
Rajah Brooke and the Victorians
Saving civilization from empire
Isaiah Shembe, Zulu Religious Leader
Development as a form of religious engineering? Religion and secularity in development discourse
Church History, History of Christianity, Religious History
What's hers isn't mine
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The history of Sierra Leone
The Life of William Wilberforce
The African Slave Trade
The Image of Africa
China and Christianity
Charles Grant and British Rule in India
Dr Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures
Cambridge, Keswick, and late‐nineteenth‐century attitudes to Africa
Messengers of Grace
Not Quite Gentlemen’
Images of Africa and British Slave-Trade Abolition
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition 1760–1810
Province of Freedom
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Livingstone's Missionary Correspondence
Politics and Christianity in Malawi 1875–1940
The Image of Africa
British Baptist Missionaries in India, 1793-1837
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 31 |