This dissertation focuses on four standard works used in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) and the Reformed Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (RLDS)—The Holy Bible, The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price—which w…
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Since its popularization two decades ago, many missiologists have become convinced that a strategy known as the Insider Movement is a valuable missiological tool. For advocates, the Insider Movement’s methodology provides a viable means by which to evangelize resistant people gr…
Prophetic preaching is essential to the life of the Church and in the life of the Redemptorists, who are called to preach the Good News to the abandoned, especially the poor. It is established that prophetic preaching is challenging and many preachers are hesitant to preach a pr…
This dissertation examines the opposing Christian financial support theories of When Helping Hurts, by Brian Fikkert and Stephen Corbett, and When Helping Works, by Michael Badriaki, to provide a starting point for cross-cultural giving rooted in four-self church partnering prin…
STATEMENT: A comparison between the values and strategies of the BBFI founders with current successful church planters and revitalizers reveals significant similarities in an apparent coming resurgence.
This study covers theological (mind), spiritual (strength), physical (health), sociological (dignity), and economical (support) dimensions of empowerment of holistically transformed individuals within the Christian community who are able to transform the community with the gospe…
Christians in China experienced both the hopefulness and the hopelessness in 1930s China. The re-establishment of the Nanjing government in 1927 partially alleviated the fierce anti-Christian sentiments prevalent in China. Having recognized the daunting circumstance which Christ…
This thesis explores the relationship between the persecution of missionaries in the Caribbean and the mobilisation of the British public against slavery. It focuses on the response in Britain following a major slave insurrection in Jamaica at Christmas 1831 when Baptist mission…
This dissertation is comprised of three essays on the political economy of the Philippines. It combines a variety of methods---historical and qualitative analysis, interviews, and statistical analysis---to examine various aspects of the interaction of politics and economics in t…
So long has the shadow cast by Junípero Serra been that it has obscured the history of the California mission system as it developed after the founding father’s death in 1784. In both the scholarly and popular imagination, Father Serra has become the lasting symbol of the Califo…
The purpose of this thesis is to present the American Protestant Missionaries of the Joseon-Era Korean Kingdom not only as evangelists who introduced a new religion into Korean society, but also as diplomatic agents and modernizers who introduced Western education, economics, an…
Education in contemporary Cameroon consists of two distinct unreformed systems inherited from colonial regimes which are unsuitable for modern Cameroon. Western Education was introduced in 1844 by the British Baptist Missionary Society and encouraged by colonial regimes (Germans…
In this dissertation I examine the missionary experiences of Franciscan friars in the lands of Islam--including a number that resulted in martyrdom--and the ways that Franciscans remembered, elaborated and transformed these encounters through the construction of a martyrology de…
My dissertation is an investigation of the Egyptian Delta city of Tanta during its period of rapid urbanization, modernization and development (1856-1907). It determines that in an effort to modernize Tanta-along with Cairo and Alexandria-the Cairo-based state authorities expone…
This dissertation examines the memory of Ras Beirut and the various claims to its exceptionalism. I frame its history as a landscape of memory born of the convergence of narratives of exceptionalism. On the one hand, Ras Beirut's landscape inspired Anglo-American missionary futu…
Beginning in the mid-seventeenth century, colonial projects in southern New England sponsored dozens of communities commonly called “praying towns.” Missionaries and colonial authorities envisioned these as bounded settlements where Indigenous people would learn to adopt Christi…
9/11 and the wars which followed have called historians of both the United States and the Middle East to seek the origins of America’s relationship with the Islamic world. The prevailing historiographic consensus presents America’s present-day policies in the Middle East as prod…
The historiography of Ottoman state actions towards migrant tribes depends more on the official documents of the government. The case of Fırka-i Islâhiye (Reform Division) in 1865 was no exception. It has been researched heavily depending on official sources and Ahmed Cevdet Efe…
Osmanlı'nın Avrupa'ya yaklaşması ve başarısız olan haçlı seferi ile rahipler ve misyonerler, ilahi kılıçla Osmanlı'ya, diğer ve Müslüman kafirlere karşı "ilahi kılıcı" kalplerine saplayarak onları yenmeye karar verdiler. İslam'a, Kuran'a ve geleneklerine karşı bir polemik eseri …