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This dissertation is a description of the effects of World War I on the student missionary movement. While the story of the Student Volunteer Movement has been recounted many times before, it has never been told in relationship to the colossal tragedies of the Great War. This is…

Con cánticos, gritos, banderas e instrumentos musicales, las barras bravas aportan color a los estadios durante los partidos de futbol en México. No obstante, la pasión por un equipo, el alcohol y las drogas puede desembocar en actos violentos e inseguridad para todos los asiste…

Sacred Mission: A Study of Hiring for Mission in Catholic Schools via Self-Described Hiring Practices of Administrators is a doctoral problem-based learning project examining the value of hiring for mission through a study of Catholic school administrators' self-described hiring…

This dissertation investigates the social-political mechanisms utilized by the Tibetan rulers and local societies of the Chone Kingdom to cope with China’s transformation from an empire to a nation-state from 1862 to 1952. Combining written records and field materials, it offers…

In October 1999 the Irish Christian Brothers decided in principle to establish a new lay trust, the Edmund Rice Schools Trust. In June 2008 it assumed trusteeship responsibility for almost one hundred schools. This study had six research aims. Firstly, this study examined the or…

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…

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine Phil Parshall's contextualized missionary approach to Muslim evangelism. Prior to this research, no definitive study on Parshall and his methodology had been completed. The dissertation follows his life and ministry development; the…