Part Four – Complicity and Challenge: the Science of Race and Evangelical Humanism, 1800-1930

Table of Contents

Chapter 6. The 'Faculty of Faith'

Heathens and the capacity for religious thought

Indigenous Gentiles: human unity and missions

'The faculty of faith': evidence and theories

George Brown, Frazer, and the origins of totemism

Conclusion

References

Chapter 7. 'White Man's Burden', 'White Man's Privilege'

Armchair anthropology and missionary ethnography

The naturalness of race and the challenge of experience

Internationalism and its enemies

The 'sacred trust of civilization' in New Guinea

Christianity and the race problem

Conclusion

References