Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

“Protestants Abroad is one of those rare books that slices American society in a way that hardly anyone—certainly no one of Hollinger’s intellectual breadth—has thought to cut the cake before.”—Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost

“Elegant and original. . . . Hollinger’s book is a comprehensive history of American Protestant missionaries abroad, but it is also the more important story of how a religious and cultural movement overcame its own provincialism.”—John Kaag, Wall Street Journal

“The eminent intellectual historian David Hollinger restores liberal Protestants to their rightful place at the center of the history of struggles for rights, self-determination, and dignity at home and abroad.”—Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Sweet Land of Liberty

“No one has done more than Hollinger to put mainline American Protestantism on the map of 20th-century American cultural and intellectual history, and this book adds an important chapter to that impressive legacy.”—Robert Westbrook, Christian Century

“One of the most important books about religion in twentieth-century America to appear in the last decade—a book that will reshape the way we think about the historical arc of American Protestantism.”—Joe Creech, The Cresset