The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home Explorations in North American Cultural History |
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Editor:
| Bays, Daniel H. Wacker, Grant |
Contribution by:
| Bays, Daniel H. Wacker, Grant Flipse, Scott Svelmoe, William Lawrence Austin, Alvyn Blossom, Jay S. F. Wills, Anne Blue Blumhofer, Edith L. Hanley, Mark Y. Hardesty, Nancy A. Long, Kathryn T. Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. Richey, Russell E. Saillant, John Whiteley, Marilyn Fardig Case, Jay R. |
Series title: | Religion and American Culture Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8173-1245-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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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, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.
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, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.