Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
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Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
By (Author) David A. Hollinger
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
20th August 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
General and world history
Social and cultural history
Protestantism and Protestant Churches
266.02373
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Paperback
408
Width 156mm, Height 235mm
Description
They sought to transform the globe and ended up transforming modern America Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthod
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"Co-Winner of the Peter Dobkin Hall History of Philanthropy Book Prize, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA)"
Author Bio
David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (Princeton).
