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That Christian missionary efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with
European colonization and American imperialist expansion in the 19th and
20th centuries is well recognized. The linchpin role played in those
efforts by the "Great Commission"—the risen Christ's command to "go into
all the world" and "teach all nations"—has more often been observed
than analyzed, however. With the rise of European colonialism, the Great
Commission was suddenly taken up with an eschatological urgency, often
explicit in the founding statements of missionary societies; the
differentiation of "teachers" and "nations" waiting to be "taught"
proved a ready-made sacred sanction for the racialized and androcentric
logics of conquest and "civilization."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part 1: Colonial Missions and the Great Commission: Re-Membering the Past
1. Colonial Mission and the Great Commission in Africa — Beatrice Okyere-Manu
2. Examining the Promulgation and Impact of the Great Commission in the Caribbean, 1492–1970: A Historical Analysis — Dave Gosse
3. US Colonial Missions to African Slaves: Catechizing Black Souls, Traumatizing the Black Psychē — Mitzi J. Smith
Part 2: Womanist, Feminist, and Postcolonial Criticisms and the Great Commission
4. The Great Commission: A Postcolonial Dalit Feminist Inquiry —Jayachitra Lalitha
5. Privilege but No Power: Women in the Gospel of Matthew and Nineteenth-Century African American Women Missionaries through a Postcolonial Lens — Lynne St. Clair Darden
6. ‘Knowing More than is Good for One’: A Womanist Interrogation of the Matthean Great Commission — Mitzi J. Smith
Part 3: Theology, Art, and the Great Commission
7. Images of the White Jesus in Advancing the Great Commission — Sheila F. Winborne
8. The Great Commission in the Face of Suffering as Minjung — Michelle Sungshim Lim
9. Children’s
Agency and Edinburgh 2010: The Great Commission or a Greater Omission? — Rohan P. Gideon
