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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Missionary Information
3,236 words, approx. 11 pages
 A missionary is a member of a religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith; someone who proselytizes. The word "mission" is derived from the Latin missionem (nom. missio), meaning "act of sending" or mitto, mittere,... 
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 The Jewish Week Missionary Deception
03/31/2000: 426 words, approx. 1 pages The Jewish Week 03-31-2000 Missionary Deception We've been duped by a Christian missionary group, and we are embarrassed and angered by the deception. Along with dozens of other Jewish newspapers around the country, we published an ad in last week's issue for... summary from source:
The Washington Post Missionaries Accomplished
11/17/1995: 741 words, approx. 3 pages SOME OF THE "Missionaries" are coming to Washington. For years the National Postal Museum has coveted the rare Hawaiian stamps known as missionaries. Printed on thin tissue paper, they were the first stamps used on mail from the islands. They got their name... summary from source:
 AP News Group says China deporting missionaries
7/10/2007: 379 words, approx. 1 pagesChina has kicked out more than 100 suspected foreign missionaries in a campaign to prevent proselytizing ahead of next year's Beijing Summer Olympics, a U.S. monitoring group said Tuesday.The government launched "a massive expulsion campaign of foreign Christians" in February dubbed Typhoon No. 5, said... summary from source:
AP News Gunman kills 2 in missionary center
12/9/2007: 614 words, approx. 2 pagesA gunman opened fire in a training center dormitory for young Christian missionaries early Sunday after being told he couldn't spend the night, killing two of the center's staff members and wounding two others. No arrests had been made by afternoon.The shooting happened at about...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Catherine Hall
19,908 words, approx. 66 pages
In the following essay, Hall describes the manner in which British missionary rhetoric, sympathetic to black converts, revealed anxiety about English national identity.
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Critical Essay by Linda H. Peterson
15,244 words, approx. 51 pages
In the following excerpt, Peterson compares Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to the nonfiction missionary writings of nineteenth-century women. Peterson suggests that Brontë's allusion to the missionary memoir raises broader questions about the life, education, and career path deemed proper for women.
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Critical Essay by Brett Christophers
13,152 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following excerpt, Christophers argues that the work of missionaries often came into conflict with the work of secular imperialism. Tracing the scriptural origins of evangelism, Christophers distinguishes the universalist rhetoric of Christianity from the nationalist tendencies of a specifically national religion such as Anglicanism.
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