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"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, 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 universities - linguistics, anthropology, and comparative religion among them. Missionary women helped redefine gender roles in North America, and missions have vitalized tiny local churches as well as entire denominations, causing them to rethink their roles and priorities, both here and abroad.
In fact, missionaries have helped define our own national identity by influencing our foreign, trade, military, and immigration policies over the last two centuries." "The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home is a collection that will stimulate much discussion and debate. It is valuable for academic libraries and seminaries, scholars of religious history and American studies, missionary groups, cultural historians and ethnographers, and political scientists."--BOOK JACKET.
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Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History
2010, University of Alabama Press
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The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History (Religion & American Culture)
January 22, 2003, University Alabama Press
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The foreign missionary enterprise at home: explorations in North American cultural history
2003, University of Alabama Press
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