Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan - Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge

This study examines a group of young Norwegian-American missionaries sent to Japan in the early 1950s. Certain that a communist regime would take over and make mission work impossible, as in China, they instead witnessed Japan's economic transformation and were affected by postcolonial ideologies and new ways to understand "mission."

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By Kate Allen and John E. Ingulsrud

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This study examines a group of young Norwegian-American missionaries sent to Japan in the early 1950s. Certain that a communist regime would take over and make mission work impossible, as in China, they instead witnessed Japan's economic transformation and were affected by postcolonial ideologies and new ways to understand "mission."

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• Authors: Kate Allen, Kate Ingulsrud Allen, John E Ingulsrud, John E. Ingulsrud
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498524827
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-2482-7
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Norwegen, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens, 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., Geschichte der Religion, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte, Missionierung und Konversion