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UNINA9911141935703321 |
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The foreign missionary enterprise at home : explorations in North American cultural history / / edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2003 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (346 p.) |
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Religion and American culture |
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BaysDaniel H |
WackerGrant <1945-> |
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Missions, American - History |
Missions, Canadian - History |
United States Church history |
Canada Church history |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-323) and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Many Faces of the Missionary Enterprise at Home; PART I. THE NATIONAL ERA: YEARS OF EXPANSION; 1. Missions in Liberia and Race Relations in the United States, 1822-1860; 2. The Serpentine Trail: Haitian Missions and the Construction of African-American Religious Identity; 3. Revolution at Home and Abroad: Radical Implications of the Protestant Call to Missions, 1825-1870; 4. From the Native Ministry to the Talented Tenth: The Foreign Missionary Origins of White Support for Black Colleges; 5. Organizing for Missions: A Methodist Case Study |
PART II. THE HIGH IMPERIAL ERA: YEARS OF MATURITY6. Mapping Presbyterian Missionary Identity in The Church at Home and Abroad, 1890-1898; 7. The Scientific Study of Missions: Textbooks of the Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions; 8. Open-Winged Piety: Reflex Ifluence and the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church in Canada; 9. "Hotbed of Missions": The China Inland Mission, Toronto Bible College, and the Faith Missions-Bible School Connection; 10. "From India's Coral Strand": Pandita Ramabai and U.S.Support for Foreign Missions |
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11. The General and the Gringo: W. Cameron Townsend as Lázaro Cárdenas's "Man in America"PART III. AFTER WORLD WAR II: YEARS OF COMPLICATION; 12. The Waning of the Missionary Impulse: The Case of Pearl S. Buck; 13. To Save "Free Vietnam" and Lose Our Souls: The Missionary Impulse, Voluntary Agencies, and Protestant Dissent against the War, 1965-1971; 14. In the Modern World, but Not of It: The "Auca Martyrs," Evangelicalism, and Postwar American Culture; 15. Evangelists of Destruction: Missions to Native Americans in Recent Film; Notes; Contributors; Index |
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This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history. This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways. Missions provided many Americans with their first significant exposure to non-West |
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UNINA9911145786403321 |
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Berkowitz Roger <1968-> |
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The gift of science : Leibniz and the modern legal tradition / / Roger Stuart Berkowitz |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (235 p.) |
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Science and law - History |
Jurisprudence - History |
Law - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Legal Codification, Positive Law, and the Question of Science -- I. From Insight to Science: Leibniz's Scientific Foundation of Justice -- CHAPTER 1. Beyond Geometry: Leibniz and the Science of Law -- CHAPTER 2. The Force of Law: Will -- CHAPTER 3. Leibniz's Systema Iuris -- II .The Allgemeines Landrecht: From Recht to Gesetz -- CHAPTER 4. From the Gesetzbuch to the Landrecht: The ALR and the Triumph of Legality -- CHAPTER 5. The Rule of Law: The Crown Prince Lectures and the Grounding of Legality in Order and Security -- III. From Science to Technique: Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the BGB, and the Self-Overcoming of Legal Science -- CHAPTER 6. From Reason to History: Savigny's System and the Rise of Social Legal Science -- CHAPTER 7. The Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) of 1900: Positive Legal Science and the End of Justice -- Conclusion -- Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index |
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Moving from the scientific revolution to the nineteenth-century rise of legal codes, Berkowitz tells the story of how lawyers and philosophers invented legal science to preserve law's claim to moral authority. The "gift" of science, however, proved bittersweet. Instead of strengthening the bond between law and justice, the subordination of law to science transformed law from an ethical order into a tool for social and economic ends. |
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