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    revolution‚ reaction‚ and reform. This is because throughout this event‚ it showed how the missionaries reacted to what the Hawaiians had already established on their own. This included how they reacted to the hula and the Hawaiian traditions such as nudity. The missionaries didn’t like it so they were quick and smart with their ways of changing the Hawaiians. Just because of this reaction that the missionaries had‚ caused the event of the rebirth of hula. Hula was a way that the Hawaiian people

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    was gonna happen next. Things Fall Apart is based on the tragedies that occur in Okonkwo’s life. The whole system of Umuofia falls apart when Christian missionaries come to spread their religion. Okonkwo is a man of title and he dislikes this new religion due to the fact that his father-like son has converted to it. Some could say that the missionaries coming to Umuofia were a good thing since the Ibo was considered primitive and savage and some could say it wasn’t due to ruining the whole clan and

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    San Pedro Calungsod

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    SAN PEDRO CALUNGSOD Pedro Calungsod was a 17th century teenage catechist of the Jesuit mission in the Marianas.  On April 2‚ 1672 he was killed for his faith together with Bl. Diego San Luis Vitoris‚ SJ in Guam. The canonization process for Pedro Calungsod started on June 25‚ 1998.  On March 5‚ 2000 he was declared a "beatus".  On December 19‚ 2011 a miracle through his intercession was approved.  The Holy Father has decreed that the canonization will be held in Rome

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    Christian History in Cross-Cultural Perspective A great deal of Donald A. McGavran’s insight can be traced to the unique advantage he had of growing up in India as a third generation missionary. by Ralph D. Winter T here before McGavran’s eyes were not only the expectable ethnic and linguistic divisions of the sub-continent (in which every given geographical area has its own area culture)—what is called horizontal segmentation. He early encountered the vertical segmentation of the world’s

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    Jim Elliot Research Paper

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    people to Christ. This might be all you know about this famous martyr‚ but he didn’t start out as a missionary in Ecuador. Early on in life‚ Jim’s parents introduced him to many missionaries who sparked his interest in mission work. In college‚ he became ever more focused on his goal of spreading the Gospel to the world. Finally‚ he went to the mission field where he began full-time missionary work. Passionate followers of Christ‚ like Jim Elliot‚ will give everything they have‚ including their

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    Colonialism in America

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    understanding the colonial/imperial interplay. Defining the question What is studied? Religion is one area of study in understanding colonial and imperial encounters. It has been identified as one of the three “M”s of imperial encounters: merchants‚ missionaries‚ and military (Schoppa 2002:45). It provides a more-rounded understanding of colonial and imperial encounters than as disparate observations. Through religious buildings and iconography‚ burials‚ and the physical trappings of religious orders

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    Introduction The first missionaries to settle on the East African coast were Portuguese Roman Catholics. By 1557 they had established monasteries at Mombasa and Lamu‚ Kenyan coastal towns. The second wave of Christian missionaries included the Lutherans‚ who were sent to Kenya through the Church Missionary Society (CMS). Among these were Johann Ludwig Krapf‚ Johann Rebman‚ and Jacob Erhadt. As the missionaries established themselves on the mainland‚ they started schools as a means of converting

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    Cherokee Mothers and their decisions to enroll their children into Missionary schools set up by Americans. These mothers sought to best equip their children‚ and their community for the increasingly western world‚ and by educating the next generation in English‚ they sought to raise powerful individuals capable of straddling both worlds while strengthening the Cherokees traditions and way of life (Smith 2010:404). The missionaries that were welcomed into the Cherokee Nation had two goals‚ conversion

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    Carey Library‚ 1999. [20] Hay‚ Alexander Rattray. The New Testament Order for Church and Missionary. Temperley‚ Argentina: New Testament Missionary Union‚ 1947.  [21] John Piper. Let the nations be glad!: the supremacy of God in missions. Grand Rapids‚ Mich.: Baker Books‚ 1993 [22] Hay‚ Alexander Rattray. The New Testament order for church and missionary. 2d ed. Argentina; Audubon‚ N.J: New Testament Missionary Union‚ 1947. [23] Carmichael‚ Amy. Things as they are; mission work in southern India

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    God Loves Uganda Analysis

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    with friends and some news coverage I saw on the internet. However‚ I was unaware of the influence of U.S. evangelical missionaries until I saw the documentary God Loves Uganda. The film’s director‚ Roger Ross Williams‚ illuminates how American missionaries in Uganda campaign to condemn homosexuality and ban condoms as part of their abstinence only education. Missionaries in the film hail from the International House of Prayer (IHOP) in Kansas City‚ Missouri. They take direction from the charismatic

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