Scenes and Services in South Africa

Scenes and Services in South Africa

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781333414092

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Excerpt from Scenes and Services in South Africa: The Story of Robert Moffat's Half-Century of Missionary Labours British Colonies, or in heathen lands, John Brown lee and Robert Mofi'at appear to be the only sur vivors. Thomas James, William Ellis, John Burnet, James Stratten, and William Urwick are gone and with them, Charles Barff and George Platt, of the South Seas, and, as need hardly be added, John Williams, the glorious Martyr Of Erromanga. Only a year before, John Morison, the subsequent biographer Of The Fathers and Founders Of the London Missionary Society, was set apart to the order which he long adorned, by the joint hands Of venerable men belonging to his own denomination, and to the principal churches Of his native country; but we have no hint, at that early day, Of' the future distinction Of his now eminent brother Scotchman, who simply informs us, in the preface to his principal publication, that John Williams and he were accepted by the Directors at the same time, and designated to the work Of God, at Surrey Chapel, on the same occasion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Missionary families

Missionary families

Author: Emily Manktelow

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2016-05-16

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1526111527

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Missionary families were an integral component of the missionary enterprise, both as active agents on the global religious stage and as a force within the enterprise that shaped understandings and theories of mission itself. Taking the family as a legitimate unit of historical analysis in its own right for the first time, Missionary families traces changing familial policies and lived realities throughout the nineteenth century and powerfully argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the missionary enterprise informed by the complex interplay between the intimate, the personal and the professional. By looking at marriage, parenting and childhood; professionalism, vocation and domesticity; race, gender and generation, this first in-depth study of missionary families reveals their profound importance to the missionary enterprise, and concludes that mission history can no longer be written without attention to the personal, emotional and intimate aspects of missionary lives.


Hampton Institute

Hampton Institute

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Publisher: Best Books on

Published: 1940

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1623760666

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Compiled by Mentor A. Howe and Roscoe E. Lewis.


Scenes and Services in South Afric

Scenes and Services in South Afric

Author: Robert Moffat

Publisher:

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9781104902575

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.


Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions

Mixed Messages: Materiality, Textuality, Missions

Author: J. Scott

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-05-05

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1403982325

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This collection of essays looks at missions, their complicity in European colonialism, and their postcolonial aftermath. It examines the spread of Christianity, ranging over the anthropological, textual, historical, and geographical dimensions of mission enterprises, with topics as diverse as the influence of mission printing and record-keeping on traditional life in Africa to the role of missions in changing styles of dress in India. Also, uniquely, the collection includes essays analyzing the role of proselytizing in Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, as well as American liberal democratic capitalism. The volume is interdisciplinary, focusing on textual and material aspects of missions. Like Griffiths' earlier ground-breaking books in postcolonial studies, and Scott's well-known interdisciplinary work on missions and postcolonial literatures, this collection will be fascinating to scholars in postcolonial/cultural and mission studies and be useful as a teaching tool as well. Mixed Messages was listed among the 15 best books for 2005 in the Jan 2006 issue of The International Bulletin of Mission Studies .