Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World

Holger Bernt Hansen; Michael Twaddle (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0852557841 / ISBN 13: 9780852557846

Edité par London : James Currey, 2002

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x, 307 pages ; 25 cm. owner's name in pen, else As New.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Christian Missionaries and the State in the Third World
• Éditeur: London : James Currey
• Date de parution: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0852557841
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780852557846
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Africa
  • Christianity

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Synopsis

The education of many Third World leaders by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. Christian missionaries from a diversity of backgrounds - Africans as well as Americans and Europeans - contributed to the construction, destruction and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean, through educational activity, and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer and other sacramental endeavours.This is a study of Christian missionaries and the state in the Third World.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The education of many Third World leaders by Christian missionaries is a decisive factor in world politics today. Christian missionaries from a diversity of backgrounds - Africans as well as Americans and Europeans - contributed to the construction, destruction and reconstruction of state structures in Africa and the Caribbean, through educational activity, and attempts at healing and trade, as well as by preaching, prayer and other sacramental endeavours. North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers