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Showing 1 to 20 of 291 for “"Missionaries"”.
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American missionaries in Iran, 1834-1934
American missionaries contributed significantly to the introduction into Iran of some elements of western culture, especially in the areas of education and medicine. The first of these missionaries went to Persia in 1832 to explore the possibility of establishing a base for the activities of the …
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Personal Scripture Study of Prospective Missionaries
… direct attention on the preparation of future missionaries. Also, the new <em>Preach My Gospel</em> missionary guide emphasized effective personal scripture study in order for missionaries to fulfill their purposes of teaching by the Spirit and inviting others to come unto Christ. Thus, …
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Missionaries, the state of leprosy in Zambia
… and isolated. The study focused on approaches by missionaries and government towards its prevalence. It also established and examined attitudes towards the disease and its economic effects on both the victims and their communities. Research data for the study was obtained from the University of …
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Missionaries, the state of leprosy in Zambia
… and isolated. The study focused on approaches by missionaries and government towards its prevalence. It also established and examined attitudes towards the disease and its economic effects on both the victims and their communities. Research data for the study was obtained from the University of …
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Melville's Missionaries and the Loss of Culture
… Polynesian natives led Melville to question the missionaries' activities. The different cultures of these islands increased Melville's already skeptical outlook on the standards his own culture insisted that he follow. Experiencing both the tranquil Typee Valley and the "civilized" island of …
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Mississippian missionaries: bundling a Cahokian religious movement
… understood as a bundled mission comprised of missionaries (human and other-than-human), places, things, and substances relationally and co-generating a religious movement. I define the mission bundle as specific practices, places, things, powers, and substances intended for conversion to and …
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A contextualized training program for twenty-first century Korean missionaries
… missionary training program for Korean missionaries. Chapter 1 defines the subject of missionary training in Korea. The research methodologies, terminologies, and limitations are explained to answer these questions: Why does the Korean missionary need to be in a twenty-first century …
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An exploration of the lived experiences of returned Mormon missionaries
Mormon missionaries face numerous challenges throughout the course of their mission. They serve in multiple capacities; they provide numerous types of services; and they work an average of 12 hours a day, six days a week. Missionaries encounter nearly constant rejection and hostility. In most …
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Long Man, Small Island : The Reluctant Student Missionaries of Majuro
<p>The problems and satisfactions a writer finds in narrative writing can best be understood through the production and examination of a sustained narrative. <em>Long Man, Small Island </em>takes non-fictive events and characters and imposes an order upon them to abstract what one of the characters …
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The Woman's Relief Corps: "Missionaries of the Flag," 1893-1918
Patriotic education began when the Woman’s Relief Corps was established. The earliest patriotic education was done on Memorial Day rather than on a daily basis in the schoolroom. The WRC’s plan for patriotic education went into full gear in 1893. The history of the Woman’s Relief Corps and the …
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Muslim Messiah: Evangelical Missionaries and the Controversies of Islamic Contextualization
… over "insider movements", in which American missionaries encouraged Muslim background converts in South and Southeast Asia to follow Jesus while retaining their Muslim identity, triggering fractious debates over their continuing mosque attendance and use of Muslim-targeted Bible translations …
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Building Cultural Bridges: American Women Missionaries in Korea 1885-1910
… thesis, I explore the role of American women missionaries to Korea and how they built cultural bridges that Korean women crossed to become Christian converts. American women missionaries opened their homes to and deliberately sought out relationships with Korean women, relationships centered …
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The impact of American missionaries on the Bura people of Nigeria
… history which led to the arrival of American missionaries in the remote area of Nigeria which is occupied by the Bura tribe. The central concern is to assess the results of that contact between members of two very different cultures and to evaluate the changes in the Bura society which have …
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… 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 practical and …
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Adoption Wars: American Missionaries and International Adoption in Twentieth-Century South Korea
… image of U.S. intervention into Asia, American missionaries and non-professional humanitarian agencies spearheaded the first international adoption programs in the country and successfully transformed mixed-race Korean children into symbols of humanitarian rescue. In what follows, this thesis …
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From the pages of three ladies : Canadian women missionaries in Republican China
… women who served as United Church of Canada missionaries in China in the first half of the 20th century. Drawing principally on their diaries and letters, the thesis examines the China experiences and impressions of Margaret Helen Brown (1887-1978) who spent 39 years in China as an educator …
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
… Korean and Korean American Protestant women missionaries. This confluence of Korean and Haitian Protestantism, which first emerged in the early 1990s, is a compelling case of the diversification of contemporary transnational and even global Christianity. Protestant Christianity was implanted …
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Posters, Propaganda, & Bloody Saturdays: Making China Christian: How Media & Missionaries Made China Christian
<p>This thesis investigates the role of religious groups and media in influencing the public perception of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang during the Second Sino-Japanese War.</p>
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