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"À travers cet ouvrage, nous rendons un vibrant hommage à nos vaillants missionnaires franciscains belges, qui ont sacrifié leur jeunesse et quitté leur patrie pour l’évangélisation du Congo. L’occupation normale d’une mission était de 4 à 5 personnes: le P. supérieur, qui en général était en charge de l’église et la gestion de la mission; le P. directeur, responsable de l’école centrale, de l’internat et des petites écoles de brousse; le P. '’broussard'’, c’est-à-dire le missionnaire itinérant, qui à raison de trois semaines par mois, voyageait dans la brousse en visitant les villages et leurs chapelles-écoles, en célébrant la messe et les sacrements, en prêchant, en enseignant et en redressant les choses quand il le fallait...Et finalement, le '’Frère'’, c’est-à-dire le frère laïc, véritable factotum de la mission. La première génération de frères laïcs a énormément contribué au succès des missions et de l’évangélisation, comme maçons, menuisiers, garagistes, cultivateurs, instituteurs ou directeurs d’écoles. 'Les frères qui, sous l'inspiration de Dieu, voudront aller chez les Sarrasns et autres infidèles en demanderont le permission à leur ministre provincial. Les ministres, eux, ne le permettront qu'à ceux qu'ils jugeront capables de cette mission.' (Regula bullata, Chap. 12, 1-2)."--
Missions, Belgian --- History --- Franciscans --- Missions
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In this volume, Festo Mkenda, SJ, a leading voice in studies on the Society of Jesus in Africa, turns his attention to the little-known history of the Jesuit presence in modern Ethiopia. Marking the recent seventy-fifth anniversary of the arrival of a small group of Canadian Jesuits in 1945—the first sustained presence in over three hundred years—the book outlines the origins and modern history of the Jesuits in Ethiopia. Bringing to life their story in vivid detail, it will be of interest both inside Ethiopia and its diaspora, as well as to all of those interested in Africa and the Church today.
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"The editors of this volume present a unique collection of previously largely unedited letters from David Zeisberger and his colleagues, opening a window into the unknown world of European missionaries, colonial settlers, and native Americans in the most crucial time of early American history. It pays tribute to Moravians working the "American vineyards" and navigating diverse political interests in Pennsylvania, the Northwest Territory, and the border zone of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River, as seen from the perspective of an insider."-- Provided by publisher.
Indians of North America --- Indians of North America --- Missions. --- Missions.
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In Fijians in Transnational Pentecostal Networks, Karen J. Brison examines the Harvest Ministry, an independent Fijian Pentecostal church that sends Fijian and Papua New Guinean missionaries to East Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe and elsewhere.
Missions --- Pentecostal churches --- Anthropological aspects --- Social aspects --- Pentecostalism --- Christian missions --- Christianity --- Missions, Foreign --- Religion --- Theology, Practical --- Proselytizing
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Andrew Fuller (1754–1815) was a pastor whose ministry coincided with the revitalization of the English Calvinistic Baptist denomination of which he was a distinguished member. He was a pathbreaking theologian, apologist, and spiritual biographer, who throughout his career remained rooted in the local church. Yet despite his multiple achievements, Fuller was probably best known at the end of his life as a pioneering missionary statesman. He was one of the founders and principal advocates of the Baptist Missionary Society, serving as the new society’s secretary from its inception in 1792 until his death. His Apology for the Late Christian Missions to India was published in 1808 to defend the BMS missionaries from those who wanted them recalled from ‘British India’ for damaging colonial interests. In the Apology, Fuller shares his passion for overseas cross-cultural mission, a passion which came to define his ministry for many of his contemporaries and also, to a significant degree, for subsequent generations. In the Apology Fuller advocates on their behalf. This new edition of the Apology includes a 30,000-word introduction setting the context, and full notes on the text itself. It is of interest to theologians and missiologists as well as specialists in the history of Christian cross-cultural mission, colonialism, and the intersection between the two.
Christianity. --- Andrew Fuller. --- Baptists. --- Christian missions. --- India.
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Pacifying Missions provides the first sustained examination of peace and missionary work in the context of the British Empire. It interrogates diverse missionary projects from Africa and the Pacific region, unfolding a variegated world of ideas, discourses, and actions. The volume yields compelling evidence for a reconsideration of peace as a vital focus for analysis in the history of Christian mission. It also reveals a landscape of peace that was plural, dynamic, and contested, worked out in specific contexts, and deeply entangled with understandings and experiences of violence. Contributors to this volume are: Geoffrey Troughton, Elizabeth Elbourne, Jane Samson, David Maxwell, Norman Etherington, Esme Cleall, Amy Stambach, Joanna Cruickshank, and Bronwyn Shepherd.
Missions, British --- Peace --- Imperialism --- Great Britain
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"Manchuria, or northeast China, is strategically located at the intersection of four major powers in Northeast Asia: China, Russia, Japan, and Korea. Its inhabitants include Chinese, Russians, Japanese, Koreans, Manchus, Mongolians of various ethnicities, and other indigenous populations. The Manchus conquered China proper in 1644 and founded China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. In the two hundred years that followed, the Manchu rulers established a multiethnic and multicultural empire. However, as the homeland of the Manchus, Manchuria became emblematic of "the Manchu Way," and from the seventeenth century onward, the Qing government enforced strict but fluctuating policies to prevent the migration of Han Chinese to Manchuria. The restrictions lasted until the mid-nineteenth century, when the Qing began to loosen its prohibition on immigration to Manchuria amid challenges posed by domestic crises and the expansion of Western imperialism. In 1858, Niuzhuang (Newchwang), a small town on the upper reaches of the Liao River in the Liaodong Peninsula, became the first treaty port open to the West on China's northeast frontier following the Treaty of Tianjin, signed after the Second Opium War. A few years later, in 1864, a British customs office was established there. The British chose this small river town in southern Manchuria to open up the market of northeast China and spearhead its strategic interests in the region, particularly in response to the regional imperial competition between Russia and Japan. But before the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902, British policy in Manchuria was weak and indecisive"--
Missions --- History --- Catholic Church --- Catholic Church --- Missions --- History. --- History. --- Manchuria (China) --- Church history.
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"Die Herausgeber pra¨sentieren eine einmalige Sammlung bis dato unvero¨ffentlichter Briefe von David Zeisberger und seiner Glaubensgenossen und bieten so neue, unerwartete Zuga¨nge zum Nordamerika des 18. und fru¨hen 19. Jahrhunderts, in dem Herrnhuter Missionare, Siedler und indigene Vo¨lker aufeinandertrafen, kooperierten, einander beka¨mpften oder sich gegenseitig instrumentalisierten. Die Quellensammlung zeigt das koloniale Nordamerika bzw. die fru¨he Republik der USA vor allem aus der Sicht des europa¨ischen Missionars Zeisbergers, der eigene Interessen und U¨berzeugungen mit denen seiner Umgebung und der Kirchenleitung in Herrnhut in Einklang bringen musste."--
Indians of North America --- Missionaries --- Moravians --- Moravian Church --- Missions. --- Missions --- History
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Rufus Anderson was a central figure in the formation of missionary ideology in the middle 19th century. In telling his story, Harris looks at 19th-century American history and at the relationship between American culture and the third world.
Protestant churches --- Missions --- Missiology --- Protestant sects --- Christian sects --- Protestantism --- History --- Theory. --- Anderson, Rufus, --- Theory --- Protestant churches - Missions - History - 19th century --- Missions - Theory --- Anderson, Rufus, - 1796-1880
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