The British Empire, colonialism, and missionary activities are all examples of British imperialism.

How British and Missionaries created conflicts in the name of Tribal protection

Tuesday, 13th July 2021

Christian missionary activity was important to European colonialism's activities, offering a feeling of justice and moral authority to British missionaries and their followers. Throughout the history of imperial expansion, missionary proselytising provided a paradigm of "civilised" expansionism and colonial community administration to the British public, turning imperial enterprises into moral allegories.

However, missionary work was inextricably linked to both covert and overt cultural transformation. It aimed to turn indigenous peoples into imperial archetypes of civility and modernity by reshaping the person, the society, and the state using western Christian concepts.

Missionary work was regularly connected with the earliest phases of imperial growth in the British Empire, particularly during what is regarded as the "second" era of British imperialism (about 1784–1867).

Christianisation was viewed as a significant aspect of the colonising and civilising endeavours of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries due to a high level of religion in Britain at the time. As Jamie Scott points out, ‘by the middle of the nineteenth century, governments, merchants, explorers, and other adventurers were exploiting the aura of ethical responsibility lent by religion to every effort to carry British civilisation to a benighted world, under the double aegis of “the bible and the flag,” governments, merchants, explorers, and other adventurers were exploiting the aura of ethical responsibility lent by religion to every effort to carry British civilisation to a benighted

While former European empires (such as the Spanish and Portuguese) propagated Catholicism, Protestant churches were usually too divided to devote to abroad missions.

The News Talkie Bureau

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Cambridge