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Habits of change an oral history of American nuns /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Evolving ministries. In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
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Habits of change an oral history of American nuns /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Evolving ministries. In the schools ; Missionary workers ; In hospitals and clinics ; Serving the underserved ; Pastoral work ; Spiritual companions ; In the cloister ; On the cutting edge -- Changing attitudes. …”
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African intimacies race, homosexuality, and globalization /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow.…”
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Language and ethnicity among the K'ichee' Maya /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Accent and ethnic identity in the Maya highlands -- Orthographies, foreigners, and pure K'ichee' -- "Each town speaks its own language" : the social value of dialectal variation in K'ichee' -- A "hybrid" language : loanwords and K'ichee'-Spanish code switching -- "Ancestor power Is Maya power" : the uses and abuses of honorific address in K'ichee' --The changing voice of the ancestors : missionaries, poets, and pan-Mayanism.…”
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Language and ethnicity among the K'ichee' Maya /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Accent and ethnic identity in the Maya highlands -- Orthographies, foreigners, and pure K'ichee' -- "Each town speaks its own language" : the social value of dialectal variation in K'ichee' -- A "hybrid" language : loanwords and K'ichee'-Spanish code switching -- "Ancestor power Is Maya power" : the uses and abuses of honorific address in K'ichee' --The changing voice of the ancestors : missionaries, poets, and pan-Mayanism.…”
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African intimacies race, homosexuality, and globalization /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…African sodomy in the missionary position : corporeal intimacies and signifying regimes -- Decolonizing the body : the African and African American in Wole Soyinka's The interpreters -- Neoliberalism and the church : the World Conference of Anglican Bishops -- White man's burden, white man's disease : tracking lesbian and gay human rights -- The intellectual, the archive, and the pandemic : Thabo Mbeki's AIDS blues -- An elegy for African cosmopolitanism : Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow.…”
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Views from the margins creating identities in modern France /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis -- Missionary utopias : Anne-Marie Javouhey and the colony at Mana, French Guiana, 1827-1848 / Sarah A. …”
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Views from the margins creating identities in modern France /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis -- Missionary utopias : Anne-Marie Javouhey and the colony at Mana, French Guiana, 1827-1848 / Sarah A. …”
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Critical essays on Dagaaba rhetoric
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The Dagaaba of Ghana -- The cultural relevance of myth: a reader-response analysis of the Bagre myth with reference to the role and place of women in the Dagaaba society -- African art and persuasion: the rhetoric of the bera among the Dagaaba of Ghana -- Consolatory rhetoric: persuasion in Dagaaba funeral rituals and symbolic action -- Dismantling fear and establishing ethos: missionary activity as persuasion -- Breaking the silence on domestic violence: communication for development in northwestern Ghana -- Liberating the "mistress" in Africa: the prophetic role of development communication.…”
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Faith in empire religion, politics, and colonial rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…To mock a nun : religion and politics in Senegal's communes, 1882-1890 -- Rivalry in translation : Catholicism, Islam, and French rule of the North-West Sereer, 1890-1900 -- "The storm approaches" : laïcité and West Africa, 1901-1910 -- Proving patriotism : Catholic missionaries and the First World War in Senegal -- An ambiguous monument : Dakar's colonial cathedral of the Souvenir Africain -- Civilization, custom, and controversy : Catholic conversion and French rule in Senegal -- Conclusion : the limits of civilizing, 1936-1940.…”
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Critical essays on Dagaaba rhetoric
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The Dagaaba of Ghana -- The cultural relevance of myth: a reader-response analysis of the Bagre myth with reference to the role and place of women in the Dagaaba society -- African art and persuasion: the rhetoric of the bera among the Dagaaba of Ghana -- Consolatory rhetoric: persuasion in Dagaaba funeral rituals and symbolic action -- Dismantling fear and establishing ethos: missionary activity as persuasion -- Breaking the silence on domestic violence: communication for development in northwestern Ghana -- Liberating the "mistress" in Africa: the prophetic role of development communication.…”
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Faith in empire religion, politics, and colonial rule in French Senegal, 1880-1940 /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…To mock a nun : religion and politics in Senegal's communes, 1882-1890 -- Rivalry in translation : Catholicism, Islam, and French rule of the North-West Sereer, 1890-1900 -- "The storm approaches" : laïcité and West Africa, 1901-1910 -- Proving patriotism : Catholic missionaries and the First World War in Senegal -- An ambiguous monument : Dakar's colonial cathedral of the Souvenir Africain -- Civilization, custom, and controversy : Catholic conversion and French rule in Senegal -- Conclusion : the limits of civilizing, 1936-1940.…”
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Christianity and the transformation of physical education and sport in China /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Christianity and modern sport: a cross-cultural context -- chapter 2 Christian missions and the emergence of Western physical education and sport in China (1840–1908) -- chapter 3 Christian missions and the expansion of Western physical education and sport in China (1908–1919) -- chapter 4 Rising nationalism and the diminishing role of the Christian institutions in Chinese national physical education and sport (1919–1928) -- chapter 5 Nationalism and the indigenization and modernization of physical education and sport in China (1928–1937) -- chapter 6 Missionary schools, the YMCA and the modernization of Chinese sport: cultural imperialism and nationalism.…”
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Christianity and the transformation of physical education and sport in China /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…chapter 1 Christianity and modern sport: a cross-cultural context -- chapter 2 Christian missions and the emergence of Western physical education and sport in China (1840–1908) -- chapter 3 Christian missions and the expansion of Western physical education and sport in China (1908–1919) -- chapter 4 Rising nationalism and the diminishing role of the Christian institutions in Chinese national physical education and sport (1919–1928) -- chapter 5 Nationalism and the indigenization and modernization of physical education and sport in China (1928–1937) -- chapter 6 Missionary schools, the YMCA and the modernization of Chinese sport: cultural imperialism and nationalism.…”
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To save my race from abuse the life of Samuel Robert Cassius /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: Samuel Robert Cassius's use of Scripture -- "The whole thing is a pious fraud" : Samuel Robert Cassius and the missionary society controversy -- "No race suicide on this ranch" : race, family, and finances -- "The Booker T. …”
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To save my race from abuse the life of Samuel Robert Cassius /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: Samuel Robert Cassius's use of Scripture -- "The whole thing is a pious fraud" : Samuel Robert Cassius and the missionary society controversy -- "No race suicide on this ranch" : race, family, and finances -- "The Booker T. …”
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Breaking tradition to accomplish vision : training leaders for a church-planting movement : a case from India /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…God restores a vision for HBI -- A new paradigm : non-formal training -- Assessing impact : mid-course corrections -- Developing cross-cultural missionaries -- Equipping local churches for church planting -- pt. 2. …”
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Breaking tradition to accomplish vision : training leaders for a church-planting movement : a case from India /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…God restores a vision for HBI -- A new paradigm : non-formal training -- Assessing impact : mid-course corrections -- Developing cross-cultural missionaries -- Equipping local churches for church planting -- pt. 2. …”
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