Protestants abroad : how missionaries tried to change the world but changed America /

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They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hollinger, David A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Missions, American > History.
Protestant churches > Missions > History.
Missions américaines > Histoire.
Églises protestantes > Missions > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Missions, American.
Protestant churches > Missions.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the Protestant boomerang
  • To make the crooked straight: Henry Luce, Pearl Buck, and Jehn Hersey
  • To save the plan: can missions be revised?
  • The Protestant international and the political moblization of churches
  • Anticolonialism vs. Zionism
  • Who is my brother?: the white peril and the Japanese
  • Telling the truth about the two Chinas
  • Creating America's Thailand in diplomacy and fiction
  • Against Orientalism: universities and modern Asia
  • Toward the Peace Corps: post-missionary service abroad
  • Of one blood: joining the civil rights struggle at home
  • Conclusion: Cain's answer.

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