Missionary Empire: American Catholics in Belize and Guatemala, 1941-1961

Recent historical scholarship on American Catholic and Protestant overseas missions has employed the framework of "reverse mission" to analyze the back flow of information from the mission field to the United States. Most historians of U.S. Catholicism who employ this "reverse mission...

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Main Author: Strauss, Charles T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Catholic Historical Society [2019]
In: American catholic studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 130, Issue: 3, Pages: 1-36
IxTheo Classification:KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
KBR Latin America
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RJ Mission; missiology
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