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Heavenly fatherland : German missionary culture and globalization in the Age of Empire /

"Motivated by a theology that declared missionary work was independent of secular colonial pursuits, Protestant missionaries from Germany operated in ways that contradict current and prevailing interpretations of nineteenth-century missionary work. As a result of their travels, these missionari...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Best, Jeremy, 1979- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
Series:German and European studies ; v. 38.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preach the Gospel to all creation : Missionswissenschaft and a German Protestant mission movement
  • Speaking in tongues : language, education, and Volkskirchen
  • Give ... to God the things that are God's : labour and capital in the mission field
  • Go in and take possession of the lLand : anti-Catholicism and the limits of Protestant missionary internationalism
  • Tending the flock : bringing mission to the Heimat
  • Iron sharpens iron : international missionary conferences and their German roots.