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The foreign missionary enterprise at home : explorations in North American cultural history /
This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
©2003.
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| Colección: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways. Missions provided many Americans with their first significant exposure to non-Western cultures and religions. They helped to establish a variety of new academic disciplines in home universitieslinguistics, anthropology, and comparative religion among them. Mis. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 332 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-323) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817385170 0817385177 |