Pacifying Missions: Christianity, Violence, and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

by Geoffrey Troughton (Editor)

Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted peace, considering its complex entanglements with violence in the British Empire. The volume brings together world leading historical scholarship on issues of increasing contemporary valence.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published March 16, 2023

About the author

Geoffrey Troughton is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. His research focuses on issues relating to religion in New Zealand, the history of Christianity, and contemporary religious change. Major publications include New Zealand Jesus (2011), The Spirit of the Past (2011), edited with Hugh Morrison, and Sacred Histories in Secular New Zealand (2016), edited with Stuart Lange.