DM
provides all kinds of valuable background for white British readers. She notes that Rastafarianism, for instance, has roots in the Ethiopian Baptist Church
, which goes back to the eighteenth century when George Liele
Timeline
31 May 1792: William Carey preached to fellow Baptist...
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31 May 1792
William Carey
preached to fellow Baptist ministers from his first treatise on missionary work, entitled An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
222-3
September 1792: The English Baptist Missionary Society was...
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September 1792
The English Baptist Missionary Society
was founded at Kettering in Northamptonshire; it led an international explosion of voluntary missionary societies.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
214
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75
Said, Edward. “Always on Top”. London Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2003, pp. 3-6.
5
1805: The Female Missionary Society, established...
