Protestants Abroad : : How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America / / David A. Hollinger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
• VerfasserIn: Hollinger, David A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Rok wydania: 2017
• Język: English
• Opis fizyczny: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 32 halftones.

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction: The Protestant Boomerang
• Chapter 2. To Make the Crooked Straight: Henry Luce, Pearl Buck, and John Hersey
• Chapter 3. To Save the Plan: Can Missions Be Revised?
• Chapter 4. The Protestant International and the Political Mobilization of Churches
• Chapter 5. Anticolonialism vs. Zionism
• Chapter 6. Who Is My Brother? The White Peril and the Japanese
• Chapter 7. Telling the Truth about the Two Chinas
• Chapter 8. Creating America’s Thailand in Diplomacy and Fiction
• Chapter 9. Against Orientalism: Universities and Modern Asia
• Chapter 10. Toward the Peace Corps: Post- Missionary Service Abroad
• Chapter 11. Of One Blood: Joining the Civil Rights Struggle at Home
• Chapter 12. Conclusion: Cain’s Answer
• Notes
• Index
• A note on the type