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WHITE, O. D., In God's Empire. French Missionaries in the Modern World. Oxford University Press, 2012. 336p. Hardback. An excellent foray into the complicated relationship between missionaries, empire, and modernity. The volume engages scholarship on race, colonialism, and gender while adding an important and heretofore understudied element: missions and religion... Comparative exploration of French religious and secular policy across the colonies helps to explain the multiple contradictions of the imperial project and its complicated relationship with secularism. The thoughtful contributions span geographical, temporal, and ecclesiastical boundaries and provide fodder for many future conversations. This volume will engage scholars working on the history of empire, religion, and the contradictions of modernity, and is crucial reading for anyone examining these topics. Elise Franklin, H-Empire (Publisher's information). € 131.80 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780195396447