...Donald C. Lord The King and the Apostle: Mongkut, Bradley, and the American Missionaries Donald C. Lord Americans know little about Thailand. Unfortunately, the three most widely read books about that country Anna Leonowens The English Governess at the Siamese Court, her Siamese Harem Life...

... of her present course ? But who will guarantee that justice and wisdom shall dominate when her power is proportionate to her mass? It is a time of great promise it is a time also of great peril for the world. As ifby Providential conjunction, it isjust now that the Laymen s Missionary Movement has...

...Saurabh Dube 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Saurabh Dube Conversion to Translation: Colonial Registers of a Vernacular Christianity A few years ago, while working on missionary records kept at a small repository in Missouri...

...Gene A. Sessions Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Myth, Mormonism, and Murder In the South Gene A. Sessions On a clear Sunday morning in August of 1884, three young Mormon missionary elders and several local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints assembled...

... of Zionism prior to the act of settlement as the exclusive his- torical explanation for the act. With its missionary and socialist overtones, the national discourse of the early Zionists does not include, as a rule, overt colonialist intentions, and thus, the movement cannot be branded as colo- nialist...

... the missionary world both at the home bases and in the fields of operation has given close attention to the experiments which have been made in this direction. Japan has in a sense been the working laboratory, and experiments made here have been used as bases of work in other fields. Various causes have operated...

... be observed. In the Hawaii Islands the dissolute sailor, the missionary, and the shrewd Yankee trader rubbed elbows with unsophisticated savages acquiring civilization in shreds and patches. The im­ pact of the Americans upon the soft Hawaiian people resulted in a highly comic kaleidoscope of manners...

... of Virginia and at the Episcopal theological school at Alexandria, Va., and then went to China as a missionary. Nearly twelve years ago, he landed in Asia and grappled with that great problem, the Christianization of the Chinese. His lingustic skill showed itself in his easy acquirement of the language. Yin...

... and concerned missionaries about being pushed into things the natives weren’t yet ready for, and, more vividly, an encounter with one 6602 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY 100:3 SUMMER 2001 / sheet 119 of 257 member...

... in newspapers, magazines, missionary literature and mis­ sionary expositions forms a very strikingcontrast tothesemountain people as seen in real life and is extremely amusing to those who are familiar with the prevailing conditions in the Virginia highlands. These vivid representations, or rather...

... by defending her against foreign invaders and by encouraging her modem development. Reinforcing these thoughts are the private recollections of thousands of Americans who came in contact with China through business dealings, philan­ thropic endeavors, or missionary activity. For these Americans...

.... 1016 Sandra E. Greene meant something quite different. To the German missionaries who had begun working in the region after Notsie was a convenient way to con- ceptualize as simply as possible the historical origins of a very diverse col- lection of communities that shared a common language...

... it suited their interests. This is why, after 1911, foreign missionaries working in China enjoyed for the first time good rela­ tions with local and regional governments in that country. Some warlords, such as Feng Yu-hsiang, who ruled Northwestern China, became Christian converts; others, like Yen Hsi-shan...

.... The least satisfying sections are those on the Islands. Mr. Grattan is concerned less with the indigenous inhabitants than with the in­ corporation of the islands into the Western economic and political sys­ tems. He is particularly critical of the early missionaries, whose activ­ ity he regards...

.... Indeed, not one, but many methods will be found necessary, and even then the leavening process will lag painfully, and it will require all the optimism and faith we have to trust to the slow results of time. There is an imperative necessity, therefore, for edu­ cational missionary work and for employing...

..., scholars, artists, missionaries, but it is safe to say that he is the one liter­ ary artist who was fitted by temperament and training to interpret certain picturesque phases of Eastern life. He had mastered his style; while his studies in religion, philosophy, and folk-lore had all prepared him for his...

... States, reflected in turn the ideals of the missionaries and the aspirations of the merchants. The two groups, despite dissimilar motives, expressed their respective attitudes to­ ward the traffic in virtually the same language. Missionaries fre­ quently buttressed their moral strictures against the use...

.... The Germans had left education largely to the missionaries, who were primarily concerned with evangelization, and much of the schooling was purely catechetical. Two other types had developed, however. The missionaries had devoted very considerable energy to vocational or craft education,3 and the sons...

... hymnal, and a common form of worship. Besides these agreements have been reached by which missionary opera­ tions in foreign lands are harmoniously organized. In all matters of vital importance Episcopal Methodism is at one and its complete union seems to be suggested by every consideration. Those who...

... minuscule. In 1918, there were only 320 Eritrean civil servants employed as clerks and translators, a figure that reflects the extreme conservatism of the colonial state’s educational policy.16 Missionaries and Colonial Education For the champions of empire who presented Italian colonialism...