The foreign missionary enterprise at home : explorations in North American cultural history / / edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (346 p.)
• Disciplina: 266.02373; 266/.02373
• Soggetto topico: Missions, American - History; Missions, Canadian - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Church history; Canada Church history
• Altri autori: BaysDaniel H WackerGrant <1945->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-323) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The foreign missionary enterprise at home
• ISBN: 0-8173-8517-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824179103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)