Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Part One: Protestant Missions, Texts, and Contexts -- 1 Master Narratives of Imperial Missions -- 2 Inventing the World: Transnationalism, Transmission, and Christian Textualities -- 3 The Missionary Writing Machine in Nineteenth-Century KwaZulu-Natal -- 4 Popular Imperial Adventure Fiction and the Discourse of Missionary Texts -- 5 Books and Bodices: Material Culture and Protestant Missions in Colonial South India -- 6 Landscapes of Faith: British Missionary Tourism in the South Pacific -- 7 Penitential and Penitentiary: Native Canadians and Colonial Mission Education -- Part Two: World Religions, Global Missions -- 8 Da'wa in the West: Islamic Mission in American Form -- 9 The Spread of Buddhism in the West: Missionary Work and the Pattern of Religious Diffusion -- 10 "In Every Town, Country and Village My Name Will be Sung": Hindu Missions in India and Abroad -- 11 Articles of Faith: International Relations and "Missionary" Scholarship -- 12 Afterword: Global Conversions -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.