LEADER 03551nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910820909403321 005 20230721022114.0 010 $a0-8173-8065-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000774997 035 $a(EBL)454591 035 $a(OCoLC)609844520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210901 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11196092 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210901 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291945 035 $a(PQKB)10431672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454591 035 $a(OCoLC)503446162 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8600 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454591 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10309033 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000774997 100 $a20080211d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA new vision for missions$b[electronic resource] $eWilliam Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1896-1945 /$fWilliam Lawrence Svelmoe 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 225 1 $aReligion & American Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-1593-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-361) and index. 327 $aContents; List of Illustrations; Note to Reader; 1. In Which Townsend Drops Out of College and Decides to Be a Missionary for a Year, 1896-1917; 2. In Which Townsend Shares His Faith, Battles Roman Catholics, and Learns about Indians, 1917-1918; 3. In Which the Reader Learns a Great Deal about Evangelicals and Faith Missions, While Townsend Takes a Wife, Builds a Cornstalk House, and Meets Some Important People, 1919-1921; 4. In Which the Central American Mission Finds Trouble, Trouble Everywhere and Dr. Becker Makes a Brief but Memorable Appearance, 1922-1924 327 $a5. In Which Council Members Sail to Guatemala to Save the Mission, Mrs. Townsend Makes Some Practical Suggestions, and R. D. Smith Has Some Surprise Visitors, 1925-19286. In Which Townsend Makes Everyone Nervous with Another Wild Idea and R. D. Smith Has a Nightmare, 1929-1932; 7. In Which Townsend Mixes Science with Faith, Writes an Audacious Letter, and Recruits a Few Geniuses along with More Than a Few Girls, 1933-1945; 8. In Which Townsend Goes Pioneering, Makes Some Strange Bedfellows, and Starts an Odd New Mission, 1935-1945 327 $aEpilogue: In Which Townsend Decides Catholics Are Okay After All and the Reader Gets a Glimpse of the FutureNotes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Cam" Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known as faith missions. Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent and to live among them in order to understand their communities. His system stressed training the missionaries 410 0$aReligion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 676 $a266.0092 676 $aB 700 $aSvelmoe$b William Lawrence$01663921 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820909403321 996 $aA new vision for missions$94021590 997 $aUNINA