Teaching All Nations

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Teaching All Nations is written by Mitzi J. Smith and published by Fortress Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1451479891 (ISBN 10) and 9781451479898 (ISBN 13).

That Christian missionary, efforts have long gone hand-in-hand with European colonization and American imperialist expansion. The role, played in those efforts by the "Great Commission", the risen Christ's command to "teach all nations", has more often been observed than analyzed. 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."