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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Protestant missionaries"”.
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TRANSNATIONAL SALVATION AND THE GENDERING OF HABITUS: KOREAN WOMEN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES IN HAITI
… field, namely 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 …
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Satisfied to Walk in the Ways of Their Fathers: Dakotas and Protestant Missionaries, 1835-1862
… of the Dakotas of southern Minnesota and the Protestant missionaries from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) during the first half of the nineteenth century. I center my discussion around the question of identity: how do persons (or a group) respond when their …
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Czech mission: identity of Czech protestant missionaries in their interaction with Slavs in former Yugoslavia countries
… case study and explores how contemporary Czech Protestant missionaries negotiate their national identity in the culturally proximal context of working with Slavs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. The issue that I explore is the Czech …
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"We are simply Filipinos" : gendered, sexual, and religious scripts in the making of the Philippine nation.
… behind by Filipino revolutionaries and American Protestant missionaries, this project highlights that despite similarities between the gendered and sexual scripts they constructed, Filipino scripts remained irreconcilable to American missionaries because the latter were certain of their racial …
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Bible Women: Evangelism and Cultural Transformation in the Early Korean Church
When Protestant missionaries first arrived on the Korean peninsula in the 1880s they encountered religious syncretism being practiced in a socio-cultural environment which prohibited all interaction between the predominantly male missionaries and the local females. To remedy this situation, the …
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Cultural engagement in missionary China: American missionary novels 1880-1930
From a comparative standpoint, the American Protestant missionary enterprise in China was built on a paradox in cross-cultural encounters. In order to convert the Chinese—whose religion they rejected—American missionaries adopted strategies of assimilation (e.g. learning Chinese and associating …
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
… had traditionally been a Buddhist nation-state, Protestant missionaries during this era arrived to the country to convert Thais to Christianity. The Protestant belief in literacy so that everyone could read the Bible contributed in opening educational opportunities for Thai girls that were not …
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Conversion and Culture Change in a Highland Maya Community
… Maya and Spanish Catholic elements. Recently Protestant missionaries and lay workers have entered the area, with varying degrees of success. One of these evangelizing· movements has been carried out by members of the Seventh-day Adventist church, with a great deal of success in some areas.</p> …
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The Project of the City in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon: Missionary Competition and Collective Colonialism in Beirut, 1820–1914
… competing trajectories of Jesuit and American Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century Lebanon, leading to the foundation of the two oldest and largest universities in contemporary Beirut, AUB and USJ. Situating these projects within a history of imperial contestation in the Levant, the …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
This dissertation considers how American Protestant missionaries made use of historical narratives and ideas about history to justify and contextualize U.S. evangelistic and imperial projects in the Pacific Ocean in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. History has generally been …
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Excavating the Nation: Archaeology and Control of the Past and Present in Republican Sichuan
… grew in several disparate directions. First, Protestant missionaries pioneered the discipline in Sichuan in the 1920s and 1930s, and while they made some inroads against antiquarian tradition, they were not themselves united over how best to interpret Sichuan's archaeological past, David …
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Pilgrimages and syncretism: Religious Transformation Among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia
… Orthodox Church as of the 1940s; the activity of Protestant missionaries since the last decade; and the emergence and spread of the Salafi movement (Wahhabism) in the 1970s. Islam became the religion of the majority of the Arsi Oromo in the 1970s, thereby decreasing the importance of the …
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The Power of the Hula: A Performance Text for Appropriating Identity Among First Hawaiian Youth
… of Hawaii's past. The hula was forbidden by Protestant missionaries in the 1820's and was reduced to near cultural extinction. As a result, many First Hawaiians do not clearly understand the richness of their own history. Without this understanding, it is difficult for them to have an idea of …
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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 …