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 di...
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In the following essay, McAllister describes Riggs's ethnology in the context of contemporary thought about human civilization and racial difference. McAllister suggests that while Riggs'...
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In the following essay, Porter examines the connection between commerce and Christianity popularized in the mid-nineteenth century by missionaries such as David Livingstone, who wrote that the two wer...
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In the following essay, Hall describes the manner in which British missionary rhetoric, sympathetic to black converts, revealed anxiety about English national identity.
In the 1990s nationalisms an...
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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 ...
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In the following essay, Ross attempts to revise Livingstone's image as a paternalist, arguing that Livingstone saw the Africans as equals, though he considered their culture in need of Christia...
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China 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 gover...
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A 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 woundin...
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KABUL, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Islamic council has
told President Hamid Karzai to stop foreign aid groups from
converting locals to Christianity and also demanded the
reintroduction of pub...
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The body of Tiffany Johnson, one of four people killed in two shootings at religious centers in Colorado, was returned home to northern Minnesota, where she was remembered as a young woman well lov...
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Matt Lindstrom must be the hardest-throwing, Swedish-speaking, former Mormon missionary in baseball. It's a large leap from Stockholm to the big leagues, but Lindstrom has a shot at becoming the Fl...
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ASTANA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Kazakh President Nursultan
Nazarbayev criticised foreign missionaries on Thursday as a
threat to national stability and urged lawmakers to curb their
activities. The mai...
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Ankara (dpa) - The trial of five men accused of torturing and
murdering three Christian missionaries got under way in the central
Turkish city of Malatya on Friday.
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N'DJAMENA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Rebels in northern Chad are
expected to release shortly a U.S. missionary they seized in
October on the suspicion he was a Chadian government spy, a
member of the org...
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N'DJAMENA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. evangelical church
missionary working on a U.S. government-backed development
project in northern Chad has been kidnapped by rebels, Chadian
and U.S. officials...
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DAKAR, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Chadian rebels holding hostage a
U.S. missionary said on Wednesday they suspected he was a
Chadian government spy but intended to free him soon. The missionary, identifie...
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