La Lengua de la cristianización en Latinoamérica: catequización e instrucción en lenguas amerindias…
by Crickmay, Lindsey, Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Sabine, Universität Bonn., Seminar für Völkerkunde, University of St. Andrews., Centre for Indigenous American Studies and Exchange
fromBonner amerikanistische Studien
"Respected authorities on the history of missions explore new territory in these chapters, probing from diverse angles the linkages between Christianity, nationalism, and the dissolution of the colonial empires in Asia and Africa. This work not only sheds light on the relation o…
Drawing on more than two years of participant observation in the American Midwest and in Madagascar among Lutheran clinicians, volunteer laborers, healers, evangelists, and former missionaries, Conversionary Sites investigates the role of religion in the globalization of medicin…
God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquié, who in 1870 had returned to France in poor health after spending twenty-three years at th…