Conversion, Power, and Agency: Anglican Missiology in Jamaica, 1825 to 1860

本论文将探讨历史圣公会传教在牙买加从1825年至1860年。我用历史上的圣公会传教一词来指从17世纪到19世纪在英属北美和英属西印度群岛建立英格兰教会的过程，其目标是使非欧洲人“基督教化”。这一过程种植英国教会（英语：Church of England），发生在两个广泛的阶段。第一个阶段是从17世纪开始的，当时英国加入了欧洲殖民远征的争夺战，在美洲夺取领土。随着英国人进入北美和加勒比海地区，他们在他们声称拥有的领土上种植了BAE。第二个阶段开始于世纪后期美国革命之后，英国圣公会在殖民地建立教区。本论文主要探讨英国圣公会在牙买加教区的传教工作，探讨传教活动中的皈依、权力和代理等概念。这些理论观点的交叉性将通过评估牙买加英国教会的传教追求与居住在殖民地的黑人和有色人种之间相遇的影响来探讨。

This thesis will explore historical Anglican missiology in Jamaica from 1825 to 1860. I use the term historical Anglican missiology to mean the process of planting the Church of England in British North America and the British West Indies from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, with the objective to "Christianise and civilize" non-Europeans. This process of planting the Church of England (CofE), happened in two broad phases. The first phase was from the seventeenth century, when England entered the fray of European colonial expeditions of capturing territories in the Americas. As the British moved into North America and the Caribbean, the CofE was planted in the territories they claimed. The second phase began after the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century, with the establishment of Anglican dioceses in the colonies. This thesis focuses on the Anglican missiological work in the Diocese of Jamaica, exploring the concepts of conversion, power, and agency in the missionary pursuits. The intersectionality of these theoretical perspectives will be explored by assessing the implications of encounters between the missiological pursuits of the Church of England in Jamaica and black and coloured people who lived on the colony.