John Eliot und die „Praying Indians“: Vom Scheitern einer puritanischen Mission in Neuengland

In the course of the modern imperialist era, the Catholic church built up an impressively powerful infrastructure and corps of personnel to undertake its missionary task. By contrast, protestant missionary endeavours, at least in the first centuries, were only marginal to secular expansionism. The r...

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Main Author: Gründer, Horst (Author)
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Language:German
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Published: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1992
In: Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1992, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 210-222
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