Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Ministry - Missions

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American...

Les mouvements de REveil ou le ministEre des mpiandry (le premier initiE par Rainisoalambo en 1894) existent aujourd'hui dans la plupart des Eglises protestantes historiques de Madagascar, inspirant et influenCant profondEment leurs vies et leurs ministEres. Ces mouvements ont toujours engendrE des tensions et des conflits entre eux et les institutions protestantes. Cet ouvrage examine les diffErents aspects de ces conflits et s'intEresse Egalement A l'apparition du ministEre de berger que les mouvements de REveil ont engendrE.

Published by Edition Synapse in Japan and distributed by Routledge outside Japan.

This is the third set of the series which collects publications by Christian missionary women, both missionary wives and female missionaries, who worked in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Many Christian missionaries came to Japan after the Meiji restoration in 1868. Although they were not able to convert many Japanese, they played a significant role in the rapid Westernization of Japan. In particular, women missionaries took leading roles in activities...

In an age when few people ventured beyond their place of birth, Andre Palmeiro left Portugal on a journey to the far side of the world. Bearing the title "Father Visitor," he was entrusted with the daunting task of inspecting Jesuit missions spanning from Mozambique to Japan. A global history in the guise of a biography, The Visitor tells the story of a theologian whose extraordinary travels bore witness to the fruitful contact--and violent collision--of East and West in the early modern era.

In India, Palmeiro was thrust into a controversy over the missionary tactics of...