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Beyond the Stone Archesby Edward Bliss
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 24.95Advance Praise for Beyond the Stone Arches "Now the world can share the life of this great man. In its intimate detail, this is a fascinating story that serves as a valuable introduction to the people of a country so important to us today."-Walter Cronkite "A fascinating look at China from the point of view of an American medical missionary, this absorbing life of a quiet hero rings with authenticity and sheds light on the turbulent years from the late 1800s to 1932 that will be a revelation for most Western readers."-Adeline Yen Mah, author of Falling Leaves "This is a proud man's story of a father who lived a life of a medical missionary in China for forty years-a life of service, sacrifice, joy, and fulfillment. The pages turn easily... more...
Center City Churchesby Lyle E. Schaller
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 9.00Since the 1950s, conventional wisdom has insisted that cities are not supportive environments for large, active missionary churches. In this fascinating book, however, church growth expert Lyle Schaller debunks this myth. more...
Japanese and the Jesuitsby J. F. Moran
Routledge 1992; US$ 195.00The story of 16th-century Jesuits' attempts to convert in Japanese, taken principally from their leader's own magisterial writings. more...
American Women Missionaries at Kobe College, 1873-1909by Noriko Kawamura Ishii
Routledge 2004; US$ 170.00This study examines one aspect of American women's professionalization and the implications of the cross-cultural dialogue between American woman missionaries and Japanese students and supporters at Kobe College between 1873 and 1909. more...
Akbar and the Jesuitsby C. H. Payne; Father Pierre du Jarric Jarric
Routledge 2004; US$ 190.00Reproducing, or summarizing the most valuable of the missionaries' letters written prior to 1610, this volume makes available the illegible and scattered primary sources on the reign of the Emperor Akbar. more...
British Mission to the Jews in Nineteenth-century Palestineby Yaron Perry; Rebecca Toueg; Elizabeth Yodim
Frank Cass 2003; US$ 61.95Yaron Perry's account reveals, without bias or partiality, the story of the "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" and its unique contribution to the restoration of the Holy Land. more...
Priests, Witches and Powerby Maia Green; Meyer Fortes; Edmund Leach; Jack Goody; Stanley Tambiah
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 33.00In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania, and discusses how Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania in the historical context of colonial mission. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology and African Studies. more...
Spirit Warsby Ronald Niezen; Kim Burgess
University of California Press 2000; US$ 15.95Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide. Ronald Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British, nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United States and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity and freedom. more...
Becoming Sinnersby Joel Robbins
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with Baptist missionaries living among neighboring communities. By the late 1970s, the Urapmin had undergone a charismatic revival, abandoning their traditional religion for a Christianity intensely focused on human sinfulness and driven by a constant sense of millennial expectation. Exploring the Christian culture of the Urapmin, Joel Robbins shows how its preoccupations provide keys to understanding the nature of cultural change more generally. In so doing,... more...
Christabel Pankhurst: Fundamentalism and Feminism in Coalitionby Timothy Larsen
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 80.00Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequently by historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. more...









