Abstract
The legacies of colonialism continue to resonate, in a new era of intensified globalisation that once again places race and religion at the centre of a search for peaceful co-existence. This book looks back to the period 1860–1950 in order to grasp how alternative visions of amity and co-existence were forged between people of faith, within but resistant to imperial contact zones. This chapter contextualises our argument that networks of faith and friendship played a vital role in forging new vocabularies of cosmopolitanism that presaged the post-imperial world of the 1950s.
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Haggis, J., Midgley, C., Allen, M., Paisley, F. (2017). Friendship, Faith and Cosmopolitan Thought Zones on the Cusp of Empire. In: Cosmopolitan Lives on the Cusp of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52748-2_1
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