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1	Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland Sanecki, Kim Caroline 25 July 2006 (has links) 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. Henry Venn Missions Christianity Indigenous Churches Subaltern Voice Foreign and Native Missionaries Cross-cultural contacts West Africa World Missionary Conference Edinburgh 1910 Paternalism Empire Race John Mott V. S. Azariah Native Church Protestant Ecumenism Edwardian Era History