Missionaries

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…

This study first identifies the issues in the training of missionary students spiritually, emotionally, and socially. By doing so, it constructs an internationally adaptable person-formation framework. Then, it describes and evaluates the condition of the Chinese cross-cultural …

This dissertation explores the role of moral imperialism in the late nineteenth century expansion of the British Empire using East Africa as a case study. Moral imperialism, the ideology that argued that the British had a moral duty to "civilize," "Christianize," "uplift," and e…