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Iliff School of Theology                                                                     

Instructor: Professor Mark Freeland
Winter Quarter 2014   mfreeland@iliff.edu

Books for the Course

  • George E. Tinker, Missionary Conquest: The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide, (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993). ISBN 0-8006-2576-5 
  • David Walker. David Walker’s Appeal. With an Introduction by Sean Wilentz. Hill and Wang, Revised edition, 1995. ISBN 0-933121-38-5
  • Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized (expanded edition) Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. (with an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre and afterword by Susan Gilson Miller). ISBN 978-0-8070-0301-5

Other course materials will be listed in the syllabus and posted on Canvas. 

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Course Description 

This course looks at the emergence of Christianity in the modern world, from the colonialism of the late fifteenth century to Christianities in the Americas, Asia and Africa. An examination of the Aboriginal-Euro-African culture of North America; the impact of Christian missions on indigenous cultures and religions; Christianity in Latin America, Asia and Africa, and the non-Christian world; contemporary theologies in their various contexts.

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