Missionary conversion aimed to manufacture a new colonial subjectivity, not just religious belief

Evidence

The mission of missionaries was to convert the uninitiated not simply to belief in the Anglican God and the sorts of religious rituals associated with such belief. It was to instill also the godly virtues of self-discipline, hard work, cleanliness, and service, thus cultivating in the name of civility and civilization a new subjectivity. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1416

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to civilizing-mission historiography and to the racial-neoliberalism theme of governing through subjectivity rather than only coercion. — connects to: Missionary universities funded by mining fortunes were tools of colonial civilising missions. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 135