Holy humanitarians : American Evangelicals and global aid /
On May 10, 1900, an enthusiastic Brooklyn crowd bid farewell to the Quito. The ship sailed for famine-stricken Bombay, carrying both tangible relief--thousands of tons of corn and seeds--and "a tender message of love and sympathy from God's children on this side of the globe to those on th...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction
- A religious paper thoroughly humanitarian
- Cosmopolitan compassion
- We are fighting for philanthropy
- Almoner of the world
- The limits of evangelical benevolence
- To safeguard Christian America
- A shifting landscape
- Epilogue.