This study covers the first fifty-five years (1875-1930), of the work of the Church Missionary Society (hereafter referred to as Anglican Mission), in Asaba and its hinterland. The period under survey witnessed the foundation, growth and subsequently maturity of the Mission. Beg…
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This dissertation explores the goals of Jesuit missionary activity and the organizations through which those goals were achieved by focusing on three of the first Jesuit confraternities founded in the 1540s in Rome. These confraternities administered houses for reformed prostitu…
This study attempts to explore the history of one of the largest, most prosperous and influential sees of the seventeenth century Armenian Church. Created in 1605 and centered in New Julfa, a suburb of Isfahan, the capital of Safavid Iran, for almost a century, the diocese of Ne…
The global expansion of France during the nineteenth century is one of the most significant phenomena in modern French history. It was animated by an official creed, referred to as the “mission civilisatrice ” or “mission to civilize,” that established boundaries for what the Fr…
As a segment of American society far from the cultural supports of home, missionary women present an opportunity to examine the transforming zeal of antebellum American society at a time when the United States was driven by an expansionist spirit. American women went forth to re…
The character of the Anglican church in Palestine changed considerably over the first century of its history. In 1841 King Frederick William IV of Prussia proposed a Protestant bishopric in Jerusalem to bring the Protestant churches of England and Prussia closer together and to …
This dissertation examines how the Society of Missionaries of Africa, better known as the White Fathers, sought to evangelize the Islamic peoples of North Africa during the interwar years. In addition, it considers how these Catholic missionaries reconsidered the French "mission…
The Margi ethnic group occupies the geographical region of southern Borno and northern Adamawa states of the Republic of Nigeria. This study concentrates on the Margi Udzirngu subgroup who currently resides in North Eastern Nigeria. Margi Udzirngu literally means " the Margi who…
This study examines the first encounter between Western Christianity and Korean religions at the turn of the twentieth century. Its central thesis is that North American missionaries gradually adapted Christianity to Korean culture and religions over the period of one generation…
This dissertation presents a study about dialogue between contradictions: Christians and pagans, missionaries and converts, foreign and native, male and female, and above all the sacred and the profane. I explore how specific actors such as French Catholic missionaries of the Mi…
The purpose of this paper is to develop systematically an in-depth understanding of the tlawmngaihna worldview to work toward a critical transformation of the church and society. The second objective is to create a new way of theologizing that is consistent with biblical and the…
This dissertation reveals how religious factors affected the development of the Korean War. Much prior research has analyzed the causes and nature of the Korean War, in part because of the war's impact upon later events, from the Cold War to the present day geopolitical standoff…
This study aimed to analyze the travels of American missionary women to Turkey at the beginning of the twentieth century. Among these women Charlotte Allen Ward traveled to Turkey as the wife of the missionary medical doctor Edwin St. John Ward. Mary Isabella Ward and the Ely si…
American missionaries were continuously active in Iran from 1832 until 1979 and yet their foundational role in shaping the relationship between America and Iran has been largely ignored. The missionaries brought with them to Iran an ideology of mission that informed their action…
In 1819, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, a Boston-based organization, supported by the Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed Dutch Churches, decided to establish mission stations in the Near East. These missions were to focus not on proselytizing no…
This document points out that one-sixth of the total population of the world is Muslim, yet only two percent of all the missionaries work in Muslim countries and educated Indonesia Muslim women are one of neglected groups by Christians. This document addresses the need to mobili…
This dissertation examines the 17th century Castle of Fasiladas, the premier edifice within the imperial complex of Gondar, a former Ethiopian capital. This particularly complex by-product of the intriguing cross-cultural interplay of Africa, the West and the East is herein exam…
Amidst the large body of contemporary studies on cross-cultural encounters, those between the French and Chinese (or Europeans and Chinese) during the late 17th and 18th centuries (precisely when China is considered a greater civilization) are notably absent. Only critics of Chi…
This dissertation explores the ways in which British Protestant missionaries in British India and particularly Scottish missionaries in nineteenth-century Bombay conceptualized "religion" and the "religions" of India. Protestant missionary formulations of Indian religions contri…