Protestants Abroad : : How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America / / David A. Hollinger.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2018 |
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
- 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