Read more
Zusatztext " Protestants Abroad is a monumental achievement. The most conspicuous feature is the breadth of the research. Hollinger seems to have read every relevant primary and secondary text he could find. The book is monumental is a second way. It sets a benchmark for the clarity of its prose . . . . The book is monumental in a third way, and that is the forcefulness and persuasiveness of its argument. Hollinger contends that modern US history—especially the decades stretching from the 1930s through the 1960s—is helpfully examined by viewing it through the lens of missionary history." ---Grant Wacker, Church History Informationen zum Autor David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California! Berkeley. His books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History and Science! Jews! and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (both Princeton). Klappentext Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era! tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the peoples they encountered abroad! but those foreign peoples ended up changing the missionaries. Missionary experience made many of these Americans critical of racism! imperialism! and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home! the missionaries and their children liberalized their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left their enduring mark on American public life as writers! diplomats! academics! church officials! publishers! foundation executives! and social activists. Protestants Abroad sheds new light on how missionary-connected American Protestants played a crucial role in the development of modern American liberalism! and helped Americans reimagine their nation as a global citizen. Zusammenfassung They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the peoples they encountered abroad, but those foreign peoples ended up changing the missionar...
