The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History

Book Overview

This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356401
• ISBN13: 9780817356408
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"