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Matsutani, Motokazu. "Church over Nation: Christian Missionaries and Korean Christians in Colonial Korea." Thesis, Harvard University, 2012. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10234.

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This dissertation examines the interrelationships between the foreign Missions and the Korean Church in colonial Korea. In contrast to previous scholarship that assumes a necessary link between the Korean Church and Korean nationalism, this study focuses on the foreign Mission's predominance over the Korean Church as a major obstacle in the Korean Church's adoption of nationalism as part of its Christian vision.
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Liu, Chun-kai Mark, and 廖俊佳. "A study of Hong Rengan's (1822-1864) relationship with the Christian missionaries." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31951442.

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Stuart, Doug. "'Of savages and heroes' : discourses of race, nation and gender in the evangelical missions to southern Africa in the early nineteenth century." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/8299.

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Liu, Chun-kai Mark. "A study of Hong Rengan's (1822-1864) relationship with the Christian missionaries Hong Rengan yu chuan jiao shi guan xi yan jiu /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1997. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31951442.

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Murimi, Sammy. "Factors that keep Africans from entering the missionary vocation an evaluation of perceptions and views of Christian nationals in three churches in Nairobi, Kenya /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Cheung, Eileen. "Developing a program to motivate and prepare tentmaker missionaries at Edmonton Chinese Christian Church for China a creative access nation /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Remmers, Philip E. "The theological development of modernism among Protestant missionaries in China, 1900-1930." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Labode, Modupe Gloria. "African Christian women and Anglican missionaries in South Africa : 1850-1910." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333301.

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Sarracino, Mark E. "A study of field-based missionary leadership training." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Corby, John A. "Towards building a pool of qualified and trained mission leaders for the International Ministries division of the Christian and Missionary Alliance." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Bi, Nagina. "The impact of British Christian missionaries on Indian religious, social and cultural life between 1800 and 1857. With particular reference to the role of missionaries in the events leading up to the 1857 Mutiny." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6296.

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This study examines the impact of British Christian missionaries in the north of India between 1800 and 1857. The study focuses on the cross cultural encounter between the Christian Missionaries and the Muslim inhabitants of three Indian cities: Agra, Delhi and Peshawar. Alongside this, the role of the missionaries in creating anti ¿ British sentiment in Agra and Delhi, is examined. Crucially, an assessment is made as to what extent Christian missionary involvement in these three cities influenced people to revolt against the British in 1857.
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Wintrup, James. "Sanctified lives : Christian medical humanitarianism in southern Zambia." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2017. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/270197.

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Throughout Africa today Christian missionaries from the United States and Europe are providing more medical assistance than ever before and yet they remain, in much recent scholarship, more often associated with the colonial past than the humanitarian present. In many rural areas of Africa these missionaries provide much of the day-to-day healthcare that is available, treating commonplace afflictions, such as malaria, broken limbs or complications associated with childbirth. This dissertation considers Christian medical humanitarianism and its historical legacies by examining the lives and relationships of the many people who visited and worked at a small mission hospital in rural southern Zambia. Based on archival research and fieldwork (conducted between August 2014 and November 2015, and a month during August 2016), I consider how rural Zambian patients related to the expatriate missionary doctors and Zambian staff as they sought treatment at the hospital. I look at the motivations of the long- and short-term American missionaries, their relations with patients and staff members, and consider how they imagined the beneficial effects of their work. And I examine the place of the Zambian clinical staff members at the hospital – the nurses, clinical officers, laboratory technicians, and others – as they attempted to balance their multiple obligations to family members, neighbours, and friends with the needs of their patients and the high expectations of their missionary colleagues. Engaging with central themes in recent anthropological work on humanitarianism, Christianity, morality and ethics, I argue that Christian missionaries, staff members and patients at the hospital enduringly perceived different aspects of their relationships as morally significant: from the missionaries’ capacity to see the endurance and suffering of Zambian patients as evidence of God’s action in the world, to patients’ praise of the American missionaries as ‘angels’ (bangelo) who arrived from elsewhere and treated them ‘non-selectively’. At the mission hospital, patients, missionaries and staff members brought to their encounters the capacity to perceive moral meaning in their relations in ways that often exceeded one another’s expectations. In response to this, I outline a way of understanding the capacity, among these diverse actors, to perceive moral meaning in their ambivalent and unequal relations. This approach, I suggest, has implications for how we think about suffering, morality and politics, both in contemporary humanitarianism and in forms of anthropological writing.

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Garrett, Bryan A. Stockdale Nancy L. "Missionary millennium the American West : North and West Africa in the Christian imagination /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-11043.

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Muzio, Rubens Ramiro. "A missional leadership model for Brazilian evangelical churches mobilizing pastors to become missionaries to the city /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Higashinaka, Mieko. "Toyohiko Kagawa (1888-1960) his work and theology for social justice in Japan /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Lai, John Tsz Pang. "The enterprise of translating Christian tracts by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.417606.

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Garrett, Bryan A. "Missionary Millennium: The American West; North and West Africa in the Christian Imagination." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11043/.

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During the 1890s in the United States, Midwestern YMCA missionaries challenged the nexus of power between Northeastern Protestant denominations, industrialists, politicians, and the Association's International Committee. Under Kansas YMCA secretary George Fisher, this movement shook the Northeastern alliance's underpinnings, eventually establishing the Gospel Missionary Union. The YMCA and the GMU mutually defined foreign and domestic missionary work discursively. Whereas Fisher's pre-millennial movement promoted world conversion generally, the YMCA primarily reached out to college students in the United States and abroad. Moreover, the GMU challenged social and gender roles among Moroccan Berbers. Fisher's movements have not been historically analyzed since 1975. Missionary Millennium is a reanalysis and critical reading of religious fictions about GMU missionaries, following the organization to its current incarnation as Avant Ministries.

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Nolan, John, and res cand@acu edu au. "A Call Above Duty: The Portrayal of the South Pacific Missionary in Children's Literature 1800 – 1935." Australian Catholic University. School of Arts & Sciences, 2000. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp1.24082006.

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The aim of this thesis is to examine the portrayal of the South Pacific missionary in children's literature published between 1800 and 1935. It examines how hagiographic literature was used to suggest to young readers that the missionary was both an emissary of Western civilisation and the incarnation of Gospel values. It seeks to document the nexus between contemporary anthropologica1 thought, colonialism and religious beliefs which underpinned the views and values presented to the child reader.The thesis examines the years 1800 to 1935 as this period was characterised by intense public interest in the exploration of the region and gave rise to the greatest volume of publications for children featuring the South Pacific missionary. The thesis analyses biographies published for children of the more famous missionaries, including John Williams, James Chalmers, John Paton and Coleridge Patteson. Attention is also given to the missionary in fictional literature and adventure stories, in particular the popular writings of R. M. Ballantyne (most notably The Coral Island). Comparisons arc made with the depiction of the missionary in children's literature using other locations, specifically Africa and China. The thesis also examines how women were portrayed, the connections between trade and missionary activity and the cultural bias evident in the portrayal of indigenous people and their societies. The thesis concludes that the portrayal of the South Pacific missionary between 1800 - 1935 was designed to enhance the status of the missionary by depicting them as being superior to secular heroes such as Captain Cook. By drawing on the imagery of the medieval knight and through the trope of 'Muscular Christianity' the missionary was depicted as having the courage of the explorer, the wisdom of a leader, the nature of a gentleman and the faith of a martyr. The indigenous people were infantilized and the trope of cannibalism was utilised to dehumanise them. Western style housing, clothing, literacy, work ethics and technology were advocated as indicators of the superiority of Europeans, while their adoption by indigenous converts separated them from the 'heathen' of their race. This 'superiority' of Western culture was attributed to the influence of Christianity and the Bible in particular, The missionary was shown as not only redeeming the indigenous people from sin through the revelation of the Gospel, but also as being their friend and protector who gave them the benefits of European living. In particular the 'medicine man' or spiritual leader of the indigenous reIigion was demonised and his influence and position assumed by the missionary who often formed a political alliance with the social leader, or Chief. The presence of the missionary was often further legitimised through the enthusiastic testimony of converts and indigenous teachers' pleading for more missionaries to come to the region. Other Europeans, such as traders and beachcombers, were denigrated as exploiting the islanders and their actions were often condemned as being worse than the 'savages. ' The publications sourced and studied were all Protestant in origin, suggesting a lack of children's Catholic material on missionary endeavour in the region. Similar to the traders, the Catholics were also denounced as interfering with and complicating the task of conversion and redemption. The role of the European female as wife of the missionary was minimised and they were usually relegated to the minor role of passive assistant to the ever-adventurous male. The publications were a vehicle for inculcating the religious and social beliefs of a triumphant Western society and for encouraging children to support the missions. either through their own vocation or through the giving and collecting of money. While they ostensibly promoted Christianity and the activities of Missionary Societies by paying homage to the faith and valour of the missionary, undoubtedly they also justified to the young reader the European cultural dominance and colonialism of the era.

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Hedinger, Mark R. "Towards a paradigm of integrated missionary training." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://www.tren.com.

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Noble, Richard A. "Recruiting a new generation of missionaries doing missions with older millennials in the Christian & Missionary Alliance /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Burns, Lisa M. "Islamic understandings of sin and forgiveness perceptions of converts to Christianity and Christian missionaries /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Dilks, C. Robert. "Assisting adolescent children of foreign missionaries in value systems development." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Lund, Scott. "Case studies in the development of sending churches for cross-cultural missionaries." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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McCowan, Tim. "Fiery encounters a spirituality of renewal for Christian workers among the urban poor /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Morris, Robert E. "Training mid-career missionaries for team ministries evaluation of an international mission board program in Southern Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Pennington, Michael Allen. "Utilizing family systems theory to assess the leadership styles of Southern Baptist missionaries in Venezuela." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Anderson, Daryl K. "Developing a ReachGlobal leadership pipeline focusing on three levels of leadership." Deerfield, IL : Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.006-1625.

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Kim, Kyung Hwan. "The MV Doulos training an alternative model for ministry preparation /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Batson, Douglas E. "Strategies for recruiting, training and retaining North American Christian workers among Turkish Muslims in Germany." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Byham, Richard A. "Cultural perspectives on working together a case study of American-Indonesian multicultural ministry teams /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Smith, Rachel Tui. "A Qualitative Analysis of the English Language Teaching Practices of Latter-day Saint Missionaries." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6174.

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This study explores the teaching practices of recently returned Latter-day Saint (LDS) missionaries who voluntarily taught the English language on their full-time missions' serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints throughout various parts of the world. The analyses performed in this research offer an insider's perspective by looking at a large selection of qualitative data gathered directly from these missionaries to provide evidential insight into what those practices are, including the most effective and the most ineffective teaching practices as principally perceived by the missionaries themselves. Thus far, there has been no research reported or data gathered on this topic on the same global scale, and to the same academic level. However, such a study is extremely necessary and beneficial towards refining the focus of the missionary taught English language classes, as well as the quality of teaching that the missionaries provide as they strive to serve and benefit the communities around them.

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Enns, James Cornelius. "Saving Germany : North American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945-1974." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610651.

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Sik, Ming Chong. "Transition from missionary leadership to leadership by a team of nationals a reflective study of a Taiwan experience /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Paul, Ratna. "Growth and development of modern education in Bhutan(1907 to 1997 A.D.)." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2017. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/2777.

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Wylie, Janet S. "The development, practical application and cultural implications of the use of visual art by missionaries for the intercultural communication of the Gospel." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Lawson, J. Gregory (James Gregory). "A Historical Study of the Impact of the Christian Development on the Contributions of Frank C. Laubach in Literacy Education." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331553/.

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Frank C. Laubach made substantial contributions both to literacy education and the Christian life. There were between sixty and one hundred million people who learned to read through his literacy campaigns. He traveled to 130 countries developing literacy primers in 312 languages. At the same time, Laubach was a missionary mystic, spiritual experimenter and leader among Protestant Christians. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between two important parts of Laubach's life: his Christian development and literacy education. The study presents an overview of the family and social background of Frank C. Laubach from a chronological framework. Additional chapters examine: the importance of i-he Christian disciplines in Laubach's life, the impact of the missionary call and Laubach's concern for Christian social responsibility. The final chapter summarizes and evaluates the research. Both the Laubach collection, found in the George Arents Research Library at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, and the library at Laubach Literacy International in Syracuse, provided the resources for comprehensive research in the life of Frank C. Laubach.

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Carter, Barbara Jo. "Developing a college preparatory curriculum for high school students of international missionary families." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.049-0477.

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Halft, Dennis [Verfasser]. "The Arabic Vulgate in Safavid Persia : Arabic Printing of the Gospels, Catholic Missionaries, and the Rise of Shīʿī Anti-Christian Polemics / Dennis Halft." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1126645893/34.

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Morawiecki, Jennifer A. "The peculiar mission of christian womanhood : the selection and preparation of women missionaries of the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society, 1880-1920." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.262716.

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Ingleby, Jonathan Cecil. "Education as a missionary tool : a study in Christian missionary education by English Protestant missionaries in India, with special reference to cultural change." Thesis, Open University, 1998. http://oro.open.ac.uk/57870/.

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In the long nineteenth century all the English Protestant missionary societies in India used education as a missionary tool. This study examines their reasons for doing so and their attempts to implement various educational strategies. It also examines the theological and educational ideas that they brought with them from England, and the continuing pressures exerted on them by their English supporters. The way in which the missionaries adjusted to their new context and their relationship with the government and with the local culture are also studied. The thesis argues that missionary education had considerable impact on the culture in which it took place, but that it was not always the impact that the missionaries had intended. Similarly the culture affected the choices which the missionaries made. Missionary strategies changed as they experienced failure and success in achieving their aims. Attention is paid to the political, as well as the cultural, context of the missionaries. While the missionaries' educational aims were to some extent formulated in dialogue with government, the study suggests that the missionaries and the government had significantly different educational strategies. A clear cut distinction is drawn between the education aimed at the nation's elite through English medium higher education and the attempt to educate at a village level in the vernacular languages. The thesis argues that the latter was more successful in terms of the missionaries' long term aims. Finally, the thesis also argues that 'raising up a native agency' was the missionaries' initial purpose in founding schools and colleges. For a number of reasons they were often diverted from this aim in the intervening years. It became their strategy again, however, at the end of the period.

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Fife, Robert Edward Lee. "From missionary recipient to missionary propeller a case study featuring a church in Goiânia, Brazil, that became mission-minded in the mid-eighties and has since seen thirteen members and counting become cross-cultural missionaries /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0285.

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Guo, Jianhong. "Contesting “Self-Support” in Kit-Yang, 1880s-1960s: American Baptist Missionaries and The Ironic Origins of China's “Three-Self” Church." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1586797053484993.

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Lee, Soon Nim. "Christian communication and its impact on Korean society past, present and future /." Access electronically, 2009. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/3051.

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Sanecki, Kim Caroline. "Protestant Christian Missions, Race and Empire: The World Missionary Conference of 1910, Edinburgh, Scotland." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07062006-114644/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.
Title from title screen. Ian Christopher Fletcher, committee chair; Duane J Corpis, committee member. Electronic text (180 p.). Description based on contents viewed May 8, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-180).

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Lu, Yuting. "La mentalidad del traductor misionero, entre el Evangelio y la cultura. Propuesta teórica y estudio histórico sobre los dominicos españoles traductores del chino en Filipinas (1583-1612)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Traducció i Estudis Interculturals, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673335.

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L'objectiu principal d'aquesta tesi doctoral és explorar com era la mentalitat d'un traductor missioner en un període històric concret i en un context cultural molt diferent al seu. A partir de la revisió crítica de l'orientació postcolonial, la tesi planteja un estudi complex de la mentalitat dels traductors missioners, considerant no només el seu compromís amb les institucions socials i religioses del moment, sinó també amb la seva pròpia identitat com a religiosos i teòlegs. A la tesi, l'anàlisi de les seves idees teològiques permet articular un model explicatiu per a la comprensió de les decisions traductores que van portar a terme, alhora que la consideració d'una perspectiva teològica moderna centrada en la relació entre l'Evangeli i la diversitat cultural proporciona un model crític per a l'avaluació de les actituds culturals subjacents a aquestes decisions. La tesi verifica l'aplicabilitat d'aquest model en el període històric de l'Edat Mitjana i en el context del «descobriment» d'Amèrica, per a centrar-se a continuació en l'estudi de cas dels dominics espanyols traductors del xinès a Filipines entre els segles XVI i XVII, amb l'objectiu final d'establir les característiques del seu raonament i les actituds implicades en la seva tasca evangelitzadora i traductora entre els «sangley» xinesos a la societat colonial de Manila. La tesi dedica una especial atenció a la consideració de la problemàtica de la traducció de termes cristians a la llengua xinesa, així com de conceptes filosòfics i religiosos xinesos al castellà en les cinc traduccions d'obres d'aquestes temàtiques produïdes pels dominics en aquell context. A la llum d'aquesta recerca, la tesi demostra la complexitat de les actituds dels traductors dominics cap a la cultura xinesa i la impossibilitat, per tant, d'interpretar de manera unívoca o dicotòmica les estratègies traductores que van prendre en la seva tasca missionera.
El objetivo principal de esta tesis doctoral es investigar cómo era la mentalidad de un traductor misionero en un período histórico concreto y en un contexto cultural muy diferente al suyo. A partir de la revisión crítica del enfoque poscolonial, la tesis plantea un estudio complejo de la mentalidad de los traductores misioneros, considerando no solo su compromiso con las instituciones sociales y religiosas del momento, sino también con su propia identidad como religiosos y teólogos. En la tesis, el análisis de sus ideas teológicas permite articular un modelo explicativo para la comprensión de las decisiones traductoras que llevaron a cabo, a la vez que la consideración de una perspectiva teológica moderna centrada en la relación entre el Evangelio y la diversidad cultural proporciona un modelo crítico para la evaluación de las actitudes culturales subyacentes a dichas decisiones. La tesis verifica la aplicabilidad de este modelo en el período histórico de la Edad Media y en el contexto del «descubrimiento» de América, para centrarse a continuación en el estudio de caso de los dominicos españoles traductores del chino en Filipinas entre los siglos XVI y XVII, con el objetivo final de establecer las características de su razonamiento y las actitudes implicadas en su labor evangelizadora y traductora entre los «sangleyes» chinos en la sociedad colonial de Manila. La tesis dedica una especial atención a la consideración de la problemática de la traducción de términos cristianos a la lengua china, así como de conceptos filosóficos y religiosos chinos al castellano en las cinco traducciones de obras de estas temáticas producidas por los dominicos en ese contexto. A la luz de esta investigación, la tesis demuestra la complejidad de las actitudes de los traductores dominicos hacia la cultura china y la imposibilidad, por tanto, de interpretar de manera unívoca o dicotómica las estrategias traductoras que tomaron en su labor misionera.
The main objective of this doctoral thesis is to investigate how the mentality of a missionary translator was like in a specific historical period and in a very different cultural context compared to his own. Based on a critical review of the postcolonial approach, the thesis proposes a complex study of the mentality of missionary translators, considering not only their commitment to the social and religious institutions of the moment but also to their own identity as religious and theologians. In the thesis, the analysis of their theological ideas allows us to shape an explanatory model for the understanding of the translation decisions they carried out, while the consideration of a modern theological perspective focused on the relationship between the Gospel and cultural diversity provides a critical model for evaluating the cultural attitudes underlying such decisions. The thesis verifies the applicability of this model in the historical period of the Middle Ages and in the context of the "discovery" of America, and this is followed by a focus on the case study of Spanish Dominicans translating Chinese in the Philippines between the 16th and 17th centuries, with the final objective of establishing the characteristics of the reasoning and the attitudes involved in their evangelizing and translating work among the Chinese "Sangleyes" in the colonial society of Manila. The thesis devotes special attention to the consideration of the problem of translating Christian terms into the Chinese language, as well as Chinese philosophical and religious concepts into Spanish in the five translation works on these topics produced by the Dominicans in this context. In the light of this research, the thesis demonstrates the complexity of the attitudes of Dominican translators towards Chinese culture and the impossibility, therefore, of interpreting in a univocal or dichotomous way the translation strategies that they took in their missionary work.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Programa de Doctorat en Traducció i Estudis Interculturals

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Mansoori, Ahmad. "American missionaries in Iran, 1834-1934." Virtual Press, 1986. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/467363.

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American missionaries contributed significantly to the introduction into Iran of some elements of western culture, especially in the areas of education and medicine. The first of these missionaries went to Persia in 1832 to explore the possibility of establishing a base for the activities of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The work of many others who succeeded him continued until 1934 when government imposed regulations drastically restricted the nature of their educational work in Iran.Between 1834 and 1870 Presbyterian missionaries labored to establish the foundations for a Christian church in Iran. They had to overcome numerous difficulties including grudging tolerance for their efforts by the Persian government. Their evangelical work was done mainly among Nestorian Christians in the northern part of Persia.The missionaries had some success and between 1870 Presbyterian missionaries labored to establish the foundations for a Christian church in Iran. They had to overcome numerous difficulties including grudging tolerance for their efforts by the Persian government. Their evangelical work was done mainly among Nestorian Christians in the northern part of Persia.The missionaries had some success and between 1870 and 1934 the area of their activity was expanded. Mission stations were opened in Tehran, Tabriz, Hamadan, Kermanshah, Kazvin, Resht, and Meshed.One of the most significant results of the missionary labors was the establishment of an impressive educational system from primary to college level in a nation that had no secular education. Eventually some of the graduates of the missionary schools became prominent in the Persian parliament. Others were among the leading Iranian lawyers, physicians, and engineers. The missionary schools afforded the first opportunity for the education of women in Persia by creating a school system that included Sage College for women in Tehran.The medical missionaries introduced modern medical practices to Iran. The first of these dedicated physicians arrived in Urumia in 1835. Gradually the number of medical missionaries increased and several hospitals were built. Dr. Joseph P. Cochran was the first missionary doctor to build a modern hospital in Persia and he established that nation's first modern medical school in Urumia. The first female physician in Persia, Miss Mary Bradford, was an American missionary.Although the missionaries were successful in educational and medical work they failed in their main objective, which was to evangelize not only Persia, but all of Asia. However, their schools, colleges and hospitals had contributed to the diffusion of western ideals and the

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Bieniek, Jan. "Enga and evangelisation : the changing pattern of the laity's involvement in the Christian evangelisation of Enga." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7718.

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Manson, Jennifer Margaret. "Person-job fit and its relationship with work attitudes: a study of Christian missionaries from Australasia : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand." Massey University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10179/998.

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Do Christian missionaries who exhibit good person-job fit, (‘aligned’ with host nation colleagues and ‘in harmony’ with expatriate colleagues), experience more positive work attitudes? Personjob fit was conceptualized in terms of competencies. Perspectives on what competencies the role of missionary requires were obtained from 3 groups of subject matter experts: host nation colleagues, missionaries, and mission agency leaders. In Study I, subject matter experts (host nation colleagues, n=22, missionaries, n=25, and agency leaders, n=23) rated the ‘Universal Competency Framework’ (SHL) 20-level competencies. Host nation colleagues differed significantly on 3 of the competencies, suggesting that in this sample, the perspective of expatriates on the role of a missionary was not fully aligned with that of host nation colleagues. In Study 2, a sample of 130 current overseas missionaries self-assessed their performance and provided their own ratings of the importance of the competencies used in Study 1. Measures of Person-Job fit (Demands-Abilities fit, Supplies-Values fit and Perceived Performance) were regressed against outcome variables (job satisfaction, work engagement and satisfaction with life). Results indicated that a person’s fit with the job as described by both host nation colleagues (Alignment) and other expatriates (Harmonization) is positively associated with job satisfaction, work engagement and satisfaction with life. These results offer support for competencies as an effective method of describing missionary roles. Possible implications for enhancing the effectiveness and well-being of missionaries, and other aid and development workers, are discussed.

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O'Reilly, Kerry. "Woman to woman a missionary's letter to a friend /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Gatzhammer, Stefan. "Die Schicksale des Oberpfälzer Missionars P. Martin Schwarz SJ : ein Beitrag zur Kolonialgeschichte im 18. Jahrhundert." Universität Potsdam, 1989. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2009/2924/.

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