First published in 1985, Shamans, Lamas and Evangelicals tells the little known yet fascinating story of a missionary venture to Eastern Siberia in the year 1818. The mission was unusual in its conception and established by the London Missionary Soc...Loe edasi...
This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and...Loe edasi...
This book is an effort to provide an informed historical and cultural appreciation of the role and contribution of missionary endeavors in British India....Loe edasi...
This book examines the transnational encounter between American and Korean Protestants from the late 19th century to the aftermath of the Korean War, tracing the partnerships and power struggles between American missionaries and Korean Christians in...Loe edasi...
Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda and Burundi, as well as the colonial rel...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate account of ragged schools that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving movements and Victorian philanthropy....Loe edasi...
This book examines how the work of faith-based organisations (FBOs) can help us understand the role of religion in humanitarianism and international aid work....Loe edasi...
This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. It engages with the myth of International Protestantism, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestan...Loe edasi...
Giulio Aleni, Kouduo richao, and ChristianConfucian Dialogism in Late Ming Fujian is a multi-faceted investigation of the religious, philosophical, ethical, scientific, and artistic topics discussed among the Jesuits and late Ming scholars. With the...Loe edasi...
In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. This book is a comprehensive and systematic study of Stuarts missionary-educators career i...Loe edasi...
Missionaries who travelled to the New World in the 17th century encountered an array of cults and rituals. Catholics and Calvinists were united in viewing this idolatry as superstitious. Ballériaux presents a study of French, Spanish and English mis...Loe edasi...
This book examines the process of transformation of Chinese attitudes toward PE and sport, using the concepts of cultural imperialism and nationalism as a lens to understand how a Western cultural import became a modernization tool for the Chinese s...Loe edasi...
This book is framed within the process of historiographical renovation of the scholarship on the early modern Christian missions in the Pacific, studying the complexities of Jesuit missionisation in the Micronesian islands of Guam and the Marianas....Loe edasi...
This book explores the vital role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in compensating for the markets and governments inability to provide vital services. Its key theoretical contribution is the notion that poverty is the result of a triadic failure...Loe edasi...
This work, first published in 1980, breaks new ground as concerns caste in India. It first examines the nature of caste and its relation to Hinduism and questions in what sense it is possible to speak of Christianity as an egalitarian faith....Loe edasi...
This title, first published in 1995, explores the history of the American Missionary Association (AMA) an abolitionist group founded in New York in 1846, whose primary focus was to abolish slavery, to promote racial equality and Christian values an...Loe edasi...
