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La France, pays de mission? : Suivi de La religion est perdue à Paris : textes et interrogations pour aujourd'hui
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ISBN: 9782811112738 2811112731 Year: 2014 Publisher: Paris Karthala

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The Missionary Enterprise in China and America
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ISBN: 0674333500 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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For more than a century missionaries were the main contact points between the Chinese and American peoples. Often frustrated in saving Chinese souls, they nevertheless founded hospitals and colleges, and meanwhile on the American scene they helped form the image of China. This volume offers views of missionary roles in the United States and in China. Early American Protestant missions moved on from the Near East to the Far East. The second great surge of American missionary expansion in the 1880s was signaled by the formation of more business-like mission boards, by the Student Volunteer Movement to recruit liberal arts college graduates for evangelism abroad, and by the Layman's Movement to back them up. During the same period in China, missionary journalism was reaching a new Chinese-Christian community, and missionary educational and medical work was building modern institutions of social value for Chinese communities. A few "Christian reformers" emerged in China's treaty ports, and by the end of the century there was a missionary contribution to the reform movement in general. By the 1920s missionary and Chinese Christian educators were collaborating in Christian colleges like Yenching University, only to meet eventual disaster as the Nationalist revolution and Japan's invasion precipitated the great Chinese Communist-led revolution of the 1940s and after. American missions contributed fundamentally both to the revolutionary changes in China and to the American public response to them, although their impact on American policy s less clear. Fourteen contributors studying both sides of the missionary effort, in China and in America, present case studies that suggest conclusions and themes for research.


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The one by whom scandal comes
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ISBN: 1628950161 1609173996 9781609173999 9781628950168 9781611861099 1611861098 Year: 2014 Publisher: East Lansing

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"Why is there so much violence in our midst?" René Girard asks. "No question is more debated today. And none produces more disappointing answers." In Girard's mimetic theory it is the imitation of someone else's desire that gives rise to conflict whenever the desired object cannot be shared. This mimetic rivalry, Girard argues, is responsible for the frequency and escalating intensity of human conflict. For Girard, human conflict comes not from the loss of reciprocity between humans but from the transition, imperceptible at first but then ever more rapid, from good to bad reciprocity.


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La mission d'aujourd'hui : mélanges pour le centième anniversaire de Mgr Jan Van Cauwelaert
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ISBN: 9789085282891 9085282896 Year: 2014 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn


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Missie vandaag : opstellen voor de honderdste verjaardag van mgr. Jan Van Cauwelaert
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ISBN: 9789085282860 9085282861 Year: 2014 Publisher: Antwerpen Halewijn

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The relic state
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ISBN: 9780719090615 071909061X 1526112167 1781708002 9781526112170 1526112175 9781526112163 Year: 2014 Volume: *11 Publisher: Manchester

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This book is a study of the complex nature of colonial and missionary power in Portuguese India. Written as a historical ethnography, it explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510-1961), and for which the centrepiece was the 'incorrupt' corpse of Sao Francisco Xavier (1506-52), a Spanish Basque Jesuit missionary-turned-saint.


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José de Acosta's De procuranda Indorum salute : a call for evangelical reforms in colonial Peru
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ISBN: 9781433126574 1433126575 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Peter Lang

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José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute: A Call for Evangelical Reforms in Colonial Peru contextualizes and analyzes the deployment of Catholic missionary forces in the Andes. Its exhaustive approach to the ecclesiastic and political reforms of late-sixteenth-century Peru exposes the philosophical and legal underpinnings of Spain's colonial policies. As this book analyzes José de Acosta’s De procuranda Indorum salute, one of the most important treatises of the colonial period, it explores influences and intentions and reveals context and subtext. Comprehensive in its appraisal of Acosta’s intellectual achievement, this book is essential for scholars and students of this early period of Christian and European expansion in the Americas. Not only does Gregory J. Shepherd examine Acosta’s missionary manual against the controversial backdrop of Las Casas and Sepúlveda, but he also reconstructs the political atmosphere surrounding Toledo’s massive and intrusive transformation of Andean life. Most importantly, this text carries out a thorough study of the ideologies – Christian, Jesuit, and European – underlying Acosta’s appeal for political, social, and ecclesiastic reform.

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