The book investigates facets of global Protestantism through Anglican, Quaker, Episcopalian, Moravian, Lutheran Pietist, and Pentecostal missions to enslaved and indigenous peoples and political reform endeavours in a global purview that spans the 1730s to the 1930s.

Introduction Part I: Atlantic Missions to Enslaved and Indigenous Peoples 1 "A Christian Splendour from an Ethnick Sky": The Church of England and the Mohawks in the Eighteenth Century 2 Missions, Slavery, and the Quaker Culture of Activism 3 Christian Latrobe, "Liberty of Conscience," and Slavery in the West Indies and the Western Cape, 1780s-1830s 4 "A Bulwark of Slavery?": The Moravian Mission and the Abolition of Slavery in their Mission to the Danish West Indies Part II: Nationalist, Imperialist, and Reform Politics 5 Double Consciousness and Missionary Work: James Theodore Holly and the Establishment of the Episcopalian Church of Haiti 6 The Forgotten Apostle: Edward Kenney, Cuban Nationalism, and the Episcopalian Church in Nineteenth-century Cuba 7 Commerce, Christianity, and Colonial Philanthropy: George Thompson and the Global Networks of the British India Society, 1838-1843 Part III: Global Communications, Print, and Modernity 8 Organizing Global Communication among Moravians during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 9 Entangled Mission: Bruno Gutmann, Chagga Rituals, and Christianity, 1890-1930 10 The Pneuma News: Transcontinental Press Networks and the Construction of Modern Pentecostal Identity in the Twentieth Century