In God's empire : French missionaries and the modern world / edited by Owen White and J.P. Daughton.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index.

pt. I : French missionaries in the Atlantic world -- When Catholic worlds collide : French missionaries and ecclesiastical politics in Louisiana, 1803-1845 / Michael Pasquier -- Creating "the people of God" : French utopian dreams and the moralization of Africans and slaves / Troy Feay -- Bretons in conquest of a former colony : French Catholic missionaries in Haiti, 1860-1915 / Philippe Delisle -- pt. II : The Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and the Middle East -- Charity begins abroad : the Filles de la Charité in the Ottoman Empire / Sarah A. Curtis -- Muslim princes, female missionaries, and trans-mediterranean migrations : the Soeurs de Saint-Joseph de l'Apparition in Tunisia, c. 1840-1881 / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Missionary militarism? The armed brothers of the Sahara and Léopold Louis Joubert in the Congo / Bertrand Taithe -- Flourishing in exile : French missionaries in Syria and Lebanon under Mandate Rule / Jennifer M. Dueck -- pt. III : East and Southeast Asia -- Measuring Catholic faith in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century northeast China / Ji Li -- A colonial sacred union? Church, state, and the great war in colonial Vietnam / Charles Keith -- pt. IV : Africa and Oceania -- When French Protestants replaced British missionaries in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; or, how to avoid the colonial trap / Jean-François Zorn -- "Catechist war" in interwar French Cameroon / Kenneth J. Orosz -- A mission in transition : race, politics, and the decolonization of the Catholic Church in Senegal / Elizabeth A. Foster -- Afterword: Missionary experience in the British and French empires / Norman Etherington.