This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion - Christianity - was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion - Islam - is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europe) to…
"This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Religion -- Christianity -- was an important factor in European transatlantic migrations; religion -- Islam -- is a major issue in the immigration debate in "post-secular" Germany (and Europ…
"The astonishing story of a unique missionary project-- and the America it embodied-- from historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed…
"The astonishing story of a unique missionary project-- and the America it embodied-- from historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed…
Globopomo : the planetary postmodern moment -- De-signs of the time -- Utter holiness or wholly otherness : finding fidelity among the infidels -- A closer look through the 10/40 window -- Radical relationality : the church in the postmodern cosmopolis -- "And then the end will …
A leading postmodern thinker discusses the church's need to reconsider the Great Commission in light of globalization and the spread of technology with specific strategies for meeting current challenges.
"James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Rejecting a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in …
James Mellon Menzies (1885-1957) was a Canadian engineer, Presbyterian missionary, and archaeologist active in China in the 1920s and 1930s. In a tradition that saw archaeology as a means of gathering artefacts for the collections of Western museums, Menzies believed in collecti…
A study of native responses to the imposition of Spanish spiritual and secular practices in North America.
"In this anthropological study, Albert Schrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona." "Schrauwers reveals how a unique discourse on religion in the Netherlands was exported to its colony, Indonesia. The missio…
The conversion efforts of European Christian missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, in the Americas during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries form a single, continuous thread. From Columbus to the Puritans and beyond, Europeans arriving in the Americas virtually always incl…
