"In The Turk in America, historian Justin McCarthy seeks to explain the historical basis for American prejudice towards Turks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on fraudulent characterizations of Turks, mostly stemming from an antipathy in Europe…
Mission, church, and sect in Oceania
by Boutilier, James A., Hughes, Daniel T., Tiffany, Sharon W.
fromASAO monograph
"Spiritual Mapping is a U.S. Evangelical and Neo-Pentecostal movement, which developed its own religious technique to wage a 'spiritual' war against unseen non-human beings. These 'spirits' were identified along the lines of geographical territories and put on a map, whence 'Spi…
Referring to US Evangelicalism and Neo-Pentecostalism, this book presents a comprehensive historical description of the movement and concept of Spiritual Mapping, with special attention to theological and anthropological concepts. It presents a picture of modern Christian Americ…
Scholarship on the uses of the Old Testament in Luke-Acts has tended to focus upon the role played by the Old Testament in the development of the author's Christology. James Meek, however, draws out the theme of the Gentile mission in Acts as it relates to the Old Testament, and…
"In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called 'mass conversion movements' towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-yea…
"Disputed Mission casts a fresh glance at the social and cultural laboratories that were Jesuit missions in pre-colonial South India." "Confronted with social and cultural idioms which appeared to them as both strange and familiar, Jesuit missionaries embarked on a titanic, utop…
Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology and Practice takes the view that before anything else Paul must first and foremost be identified as a missionary'. Using the entire Pauline corpus the contributors to this volume assess what Paul's correspondence can tell us about…
Paul as Missionary: Identity, Activity, Theology and Practice takes the view that before anything else Paul must first and foremost be identified as a "missionary". Using the entire Pauline corpus the contributors to this volume assess what Paulʹs correspondence can tell us abou…
