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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Christian missions"”.
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
… Amharic culture. Selassie permitted foreign missions, such as the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) and Swedish Evangelical Mission (SEM), to function as his subcontractors for civilization by building schools, establishing medical stations, and evangelizing the non-Orthodox populations. Selassie …
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Three Instances of Western Colonial Governments and Christian Missions in Cameroon Education: 1884-1961
… colonial governments had with various Western Christian missionary organizations; these interactions and collaborations led to the establishment of the German, British, and French colonial formal schools in Cameroon up until Independence from colonial rule in 1960 and 1961. The official …
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… the conversion of the eastern Papuan people to Christianity, the response of the Massim people and their neighbours to this process, and the nature of the indigenous Christian leadership that emerged. Between 1877 and 1942, several groups of missionaries were influential in eastern New Guinea. …
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Christian missions in Eastern New Guinea : a study of European, South Sea Island and Papuan influences, 1877-1942
… the conversion of the eastern Papuan people to Christianity, the response of the Massim people and their neighbours to this process, and the nature of the indigenous Christian leadership that emerged. Between 1877 and 1942, several groups of missionaries were influential in eastern New Guinea. …
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Suffering in the Sunni and Calvinist World Views: Demonstrating the Value of the Comparative Approach in the Study of Religion in Service of Christian Missions
… can be a valuable missiological tool for Christians. Chapter 1 explains the need for Christians to have an in-depth understanding of the Sunni worldview in order to better contextualize the gospel. Chapter 2 provides a history of the comparative method in the academic study of religion, …
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The Local Church and the Great Commission: A Biblical Perspective on the Practice of Evangelism and Missions among Churches of the Nigerian Baptist Convention
… some understanding regarding the influence the Christian missions has had over the people of Nigeria. It also sheds light on the possible implications for the contemporary Christian missions in Nigeria. Chapter 3 explores the historical background of the missionary endeavors of the Southern …
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
… post-colonial ethnic identity. As a result, Christianity is viewed as alien or even hostile due to its association with the Russian Orthodox Church and Russia, which is a former colonizer.In seven chapters, I examine the religious history of the Qazaq people and probe implications for modern …
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Chains of virtue: Seventeenth-century saints in Spanish colonial Lima
… with external others and the need to justify Christian missions. Hagiographers focused on the power or language and gave little attention to the physical world of bodies. The second phase was marked by an increasing sense of Creole identity. Hagiographers shifted the focus from words and …
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Training Chinese house church leaders: Factors influencing leadership development strategies
… into three sections: (1) the early history of Christian missions to China, 635-1784; (2) imperialism and Protestant missions to China, 1807-1900; and (3) nationalism and the independent church movement, 1901-1949. Chapter 3 deals with a history of the Chinese house church movement under the …
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An Evangelistic Strategy for the Men's Missionary Union in Southeastern Nigeria
… of the people. Chapter 4 looks at the history of missions in Southeast Nigeria. The areas of focus include: Christian Missions in Southeast Nigeria, Baptist Missions in the Southeast Nigeria, the Southern Baptist Missions in Nigeria, the Nigerian Baptist Convention Missions and the Men’s …
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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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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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Northern Thai Theravada Folk Buddhism through the Eyes of Buddhist Background Believers
… came to Christ and in their current practices as Christians. Chapter 1 presents the research question and methodology. The research question is “What trends are present in the testimonies of formerly Buddhist Northern Thai Christians?” Methodology includes literature review, interviews, narrative …
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The Romantic Reinvention of Imperial China, 1759–1857
… second between the Kangxi Emperor’s 1721 ban on Christian missions and the end of the second Opium War in 1860. From the mid-eighteenth century up to the first Opium War—a period in which British imperialism escalated—Britons tackled these gaps in cultural knowledge with myriad visual and textual …
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A missional approach to the traditional social associations of the NSO’ people of Cameroon
This research deals with Christian missions and African cultures. It focuses on the traditional social associations of the Nso’ people of Cameroon. The main problem the research addresses is that missionaries who came to Nso’ mostly imposed their culture on the Nso’ and by extension Africa in the …
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A Comparative Study of the Concept of Atonement in the Aboakyer Festival of the Effutu Tribe in Ghana and the Yom Kippur Festival of the Old Testament: Implications for Adventist Mission Among the Effutu
… of Problem</p> <p>History records that Christian missions have operated in Winneba since 1865 with various approaches being used to share the gospel with the Effutu. Though there have been successes, allegiance of the Effutu to their tribal gods, manifested especially during the Aboakyer …
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Proselytizing Problem-Solving:The Religious and Secular Values of Engineering for Good
… good" efforts in the context of the history of Christian missions and colonialism, failed development efforts, and often competing individual and institutional values. These individual and institutional values are entangled in religious analogies and engineers' desire to fit into an …
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Missions and social identities in the Lower Orange River Basin, 1760-1998
… Coloured and Nama Reserves associated with Christian missions in the Lower Orange River Basin of Namaqualand. A distinctive historical feature of this region is a general trend towards social integration as opposed to the separation found in other parts of southern Africa. In the case …
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Ondersteuning van sendelinge deur die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Gemeentes in die oostelike Sinode : 'n missiologiese benadering
Die motivering van hierdie navorsing word gevind in die wete dat die wêreld vandag gebroke en stukkend is en dat mense die versugting het na: “deel wees in en van God se plan” om sodoende ’n verskil in die wêreld te kan maak. Ons kan beswaarlik sê dat God ons nie in die 21ste eeu uitdaag om nuut en …