Missionary Interests

David Golding is a historian of Mormonism and missions. His publications have previously appeared in The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender and World Religions and Their Missions.Christopher Cannon Jones is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University.

• Introduction1. Heathen Landscapes: Of Souls and Soils2. Before "Woman's Work for Woman": Protestant Missionary Applications and Gender3. Humanitarian Encounter in Late Ottoman Turkey: State, American Protestant Missionaries, and the Christian Herald Armenian Relief Fund4. Dueling Orientalisms: The Scottish Imagination in the MormonMissionary Mind5. Shoshone Worlds, Bannock Zions: Protestant and Latter-day Saint Missionary Work among the Shoshone and Bannock6. Traveling Elders: The Latter-day Saint Gaze on Africa in the Early Twentieth Century7. Earthquakes, Mudslides, and Hurricanes: Natural Disasters and Humanitarian Aid in Evangelical Missionary Strategy8. Inventing Rupture in India and America: Adivāsi Converts, Hindu Nationalists, and American RLDS Missionaries, 1966–19969. Technological Christianity: Transferring Processes, Forms, and Organizational Tools within Global Missionary Encounters10. Missing Missiology: Latter-day Saint Missionary Pragmatism and the Search for Scholarship11. American Missionaries and the Struggle for Control ofChristianity's Symbolic Capital