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Taking Christianity to China : Alabama missionaries in the middle kingdom, 1850-1950 /
"Beginning early in the 19th century, the American missionary movement made slow headway in China. Individuals from Alabama became part of that small beachhead. After 1900 both the money and personnel rapidly expanded, peaking in the early 1920s. By the 1930s many American denominations became...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The light of science and revelation: the mission
- You can see all nations here: Alabama culture and the missionary enterprise
- The intense longing of my heart:
- Preparing for China missions
- One of the hardest things I ever undertook:
- First contact with China
- The peculiar customs are so bewildering:
- Understanding Chinese culture
- The best way is to live one day at a time:
- Missionary life in China
- A trip of preaching, healing, and teaching: missionary work
- I was a different person, my girlhood was past:
- Woman consciousness among Alabama missionaries
- Error is propagated along with truth: conflict among Alabama missionaries
- Jesus Christ had nothing to do with the French:
- Missionaries and Chinese politics:
- You who drink the water, do not forget the person who dug the well:
- The legacies of Alabama missionaries in China.