The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home - Explorations in North American Cultural History

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

About the author

Daniel H. Bays is William Spoelhof Chair and Professor of History at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and author of Christianity in China: From the 18th Century to the Present.Grant Wacker is Professor of Church History at Duke University and author of Heaven Below: Early Pentecostals and American Culture.

Summary

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel H. (EDT)/ Wacker Bays
• Assisted by: Daniel Bays (Editor), Daniel H Bays (Editor), Daniel H. Bays (Editor), Grant Wacker (Editor), Grant A. Wacker (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780817356408
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5640-8
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture; Religion & American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories