The Story of the Karen Mission in Bassein, 1838-1890
Author: Linus Pierpont Brockett
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 186
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Author: Linus Pierpont Brockett
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Lee Lewis
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Published: 1924
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Linus Pierpont BROCKETT
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Published: 1891
Total Pages: 160
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jay Riley Case
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0199912750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe astonishing growth of Christianity in the global South over the course of the twentieth century has sparked an equally rapid growth in studies of ''World Christianity,'' which have dismantled the notion that Christianity is a Western religion. What, then, are we to make of the waves of Western missionaries who have, for centuries, been evangelizing in the global South? Were they merely, as many have argued, agents of imperialism out to impose Western values? In An Unpredictable Gospel, Jay Case examines the efforts of American evangelical missionaries in light of this new scholarship. He argues that if they were agents of imperialism, they were poor ones. Western missionaries had a dismal record of converting non-Westerners to Christianity. The ministries that were most successful were those that empowered the local population and adapted to local cultures. In fact, influence often flowed the other way, with missionaries serving as conduits for ideas that shaped American evangelicalism. Case traces these currents and sheds new light on the relationship between Western and non-Western Christianities.
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
Author: Lamin Sanneh
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-03-10
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 0198039409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.
Author: Steffen Rimner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2018-11-12
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0674976304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe League of Nations Advisory Committee on the Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, created in 1920, culminated almost eight decades of political turmoil over opium trafficking, which was by far the largest state-backed drug trade in the age of empire. Opponents of opium had long struggled to rein in the profitable drug. Opium’s Long Shadow shows how diverse local protests crossed imperial, national, and colonial boundaries to gain traction globally and harness public opinion as a moral deterrent in international politics after World War I. Steffen Rimner traces the far-flung itineraries and trenchant arguments of reformers—significantly, feminists and journalists—who viewed opium addiction as a root cause of poverty, famine, “white slavery,” and moral degradation. These activists targeted the international reputation of drug-trading governments, first and foremost Great Britain, British India, and Japan, becoming pioneers of the global political tactic we today call naming and shaming. But rather than taking sole responsibility for their own behavior, states in turn appropriated anti-drug criticism to shame fellow sovereigns around the globe. Consequently, participation in drug control became a prerequisite for membership in the twentieth-century international community. Rimner relates how an aggressive embrace of anti-drug politics earned China and other Asian states new influence on the world stage. The link between drug control and international legitimacy has endured. Amid fierce contemporary debate over the wisdom of narcotics policies, the 100-year-old moral consensus Rimner describes remains a backbone of the international order.
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Samuel Yonas Deressa
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2023-11-24
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 197871324X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing upon the public theology of Gary M. Simpson and personal experiences, contributors provide theological perspectives on the ethics and opportunities of twenty-first century Christian mission and envision promising pathways for Christian congregations to faithfully bear social responsibility in contemporary worldwide contexts.