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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Christian missionaries"”.
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EXAMINING THE CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF UNITED STATES CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES ENGAGED IN DEVELOPING INDIGENOUS LEADERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
<p>For the past two millennia, missionaries have crossed from one culture to another to bring the Christian message to all cultures of the world. Questions about the effectiveness of these mission efforts have been asked and researched by many; however, one key question remains unanswered: what …
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The impact of British Christian missionaries on Indian religious, social and cultural life between 1800 and 1857. With particular reference to the role of missionaries in the events leading up to the 1857 Mutiny
This study examines the impact of British Christian missionaries in the north of India between 1800 and 1857. The study focuses on the cross cultural encounter between the Christian Missionaries and the Muslim inhabitants of three Indian cities: Agra, Delhi and Peshawar. Alongside this, the role of …
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Applying ecofeminist theory to Christian mission work in Honduras: Building theoretical bridges for real change
This thesis encourages the tens of thousands of Christian missionaries traveling yearly to Honduras to look to the ecofeminist theories of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Mary Judith Ress in order to more effectively confront the social, political, and economic hurdles preventing more Hondurans from …
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Missionaries, reformers, and the beginnings of western music in late imperial China (1839-1911)
This is a study of Christian missionaries, Chinese reformers and the beginnings of Western music in late imperial China (1842-1911). It focuses on examining how Christian missionaries and Chinese reformers, in the process of advancing their goals, made use of aspects of Western musical culture and …
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Cognition in the Christian reformulation of Tonga: Motivation, internalization, and schemas
Christian missionaries came to Tonga in the 19th century with the intention of converting the Tongans to Christianity and transforming Tongan society to fit with European-Victorian ideals. The missionaries were successful in their conversion efforts. However, traditional Tongan society was not …
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Sanctified lives: Christian medical humanitarianism in southern Zambia
Throughout Africa today Christian missionaries from the United States and Europe are providing more medical assistance than ever before and yet they remain, in much recent scholarship, more often associated with the colonial past than the humanitarian present. In many rural areas of Africa these …
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Religious propaganda in selected Anglo-Saxton literature
… is made to outline the manner in which the Christian missionaries used certain aspects of pagan belief to promote Christianity. As such, these texts may therefore be viewed as religious propaganda in the Anglo- Saxon Church's attempt to win new converts to Christianity and to strengthen the …
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Resilience and Resistance: Culture, Conversion, and Survival Among the Stockbridge Mohicans
… praying town and why they chose to convert to Christianity, the religion of the Puritan colonizers. I will also explore how they used their conversion to promote their own community goals. While praying towns were designed by Puritan settler colonists to isolate and transform the religion and …
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A Missiological Study of the Phenomenon of Dual Allegiance in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Among the Yoruba People of Nigeria
… of different kinds of charms and medicines. Christians, including some Yoruba Adventists, also engage in such consultations, a practice which is categorically condemned in the Scriptures, the normative source for the Christian faith and life.</p> <p>Purpose of the Study</p> <p>he purpose of …
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The role of the Christian church in South African society : with scriptural focus on the care of widows and orphans
… Themes", by Robert M. Brown. His view of Christian ministry differs fundamentally from the documented ministry of the early Church, described by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. A comparative analysis is presented in this dissertation. A brief review is made of the Christian Church in …
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Colonialism and Christianity: Factors Affecting the Evolution of Women's Rights in Uganda and Zimbabwe
… centuryEurope. Government officials and Christian missionaries, when not vying for ultimatecontrol over the indigenous populations, collaborated to formally institute Eurocentricpatriarchal systems.The kingdoms of pre-colonial Uganda relied on division of roles according to sex,but these …
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“The least of these”: black club women and the social gospel
<p>Defined by a focus on social reform and Christian ethics, the social gospel emerged immediately after the Civil War when Christian leaders and organizations promulgated a religious ethic concerned with groups bearing low social standings, especially the working class. White male pastors led and …
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Masculinity, Morality, and National Identity in the "Boy's Own Paper", 1879-1913
… how the Boy's Own Paper struggled to balance Christian beliefs, changing social demands, and growing imperial objectives. Each chapter delivers a close reading of selected texts ranging from illustrated fictional stories written by leading authors of the day, such as G. A. Henty and Talbot …
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Problematizing partnership: the experience, perceptions, and insights of Ugandan church leaders in church partnership with Christians overseas, in juxtaposition with the Western literature
… mediation by traditional gatekeepers (typically Christian missionaries or ministries). Its findings are then compared to the literature, most of which originates in and adheres to global-north perspectives. A quantitative survey of church leaders found the incidence of these partnerships, …
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Shakespeare studies in Colonial Bengal : The early phase.
… and Anglicists, amidst intense rivalry between Christian missionaries and orthodox Hindus, Hindu College pioneered Shakespeare studies, keeping it free from religious orthodoxy, and imparting secular ideas of Renaissance humanism.Describing the historical role the leading founders of the college …
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Gender, economic agency, and social class: A rhetorical analysis of Pearl Buck's The House of Earth Trilogy through the dramatistic pentad of Kenneth Burke
… a result of the accounts provided by travelers, Christian missionaries, and merchants. These accounts propagated misconceptions and stereotypes regarding China and the Chinese. American Nobel-prize winning writer Pearl S. Buck had lived in China for the first thirty-four years of her life, a …
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Mission Education in Early Sierra Leone, 1793-1820
… colonial context. The activities of the various Christian missions enhanced the educational opportunities for the nascent British colony, especially with the arrival of people taken off slave ships by the British navy after 1808. People in the area of Sierra Leone already had access to education …
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The Application of Heliaki (Imagery) in Tongan Songs and the Roles of Journalists and Censorial Punake in Their Censorship Between the 1960s and the Early 2000s
… profoundly shaped by the arrival of the early Christian missionaries particularly through their translation of hymns, the Holy Bible, and other religious texts into Tongan. Against this historical background, the study further establishes that heliaki, the defining literary system of hiva …
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… and Native American preachers who worked as Christian missionaries in the early modern British Atlantic world. While scholars have generally accepted the convention that most missionaries were white Europeans who knew little about the native peoples they were trying to convert, there were …
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