RT Article
T1 Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
JF International bulletin of mission research
VO 43
IS 2
SP 181
OP 187
A1 Lian, Xi 1962-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1663108056
AB In Protestants Abroad David Hollinger reminds us of the vital role of missionaries in American history. The book explores how overseas missions, though often linked with imperialism, produced a counterreaction against it in the course of the twentieth century. As a result of the "cascading self-interrogations" from the mission field, both the missionary enterprise and churches in America were challenged and changed. Missionaries, their children, and missionary-connected Americans helped their country come to grips with the traditions and modern realities of Asia, pioneered in the development of academic studies of Asia, and left distinct, cosmopolitan marks on America's national life.
K1 Asian Studies
K1 Cross-cultural understanding
K1 Ecumenism
K1 Liberalism
K1 missionary cosmopolitanism
K1 missionary impulse
DO 10.1177/2396939318795373