The foreign missionary enterprise at home
Subtitle: explorations in North American cultural history
By: edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker.
Contributors: Bays, Daniel H.; Wacker, Grant, 1945-
Series: Religion and American culture; Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa, Ala
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Missions, American -- History.; Missions, Canadian -- History.; United States -- Church history.; Canada -- Church history.
Description: "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, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways. Missions provided many Americans with their first significant exposure to non-Western cultures and religions.

They helped to establish a variety of new academic disciplines in home universities - linguistics, anthropology, and comparative religion among them. Missionary women helped redefine gender roles in North America, and missions have vitalized tiny local churches as well as entire denominations, causing them to rethink their roles and priorities, both here and abroad.

In fact, missionaries have helped define our own national identity by influencing our foreign, trade, military, and immigration policies over the last two centuries." "The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home is a collection that will stimulate much discussion and debate. It is valuable for academic libraries and seminaries, scholars of religious history and American studies, missionary groups, cultural historians and ethnographers, and political scientists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-323) and index.
Table of contents: title: Missions in Liberia and race relations in the United States / John Saillant; title: The serpentine trail : Haitian missions and the construction of African-American religious identity / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp; title: Revolution at home and abroad : radical implications of the Protestant call to missions / Mark Hanley; title: From the native ministry to the talented tenth : the foreign missionary origins of white support for Black colleges / Jay Riley Case; title: Organizing for missions : a Methodist case study / Russell E. Richey; title: Mapping Presbyterian missionary identity in the church at home and abroad / Anne Blue Wills; title: The scientific study of missions : textbooks of the central committee on the united study of foreign missions / Nancy A. Hardesty; title: Open-winged piety : reflex influence and the woman's missionary society of the Methodist Church in Canada / Marilyn F. Whiteley; title: Hotbed of missions : the China inland mission, Toronto Bible College, and the faith missions Bible school connection / Alvyn Austin; title: From India's coral strand : Pandita Ramabai and U.S. support for foreign missions / Edith L. Blumhofer; title: The general and the gringo / William L. Svelmoe; title: The waning of the missionary impulse : the case of Pearl S. Buck / Grant Wacker; title: To save "free Vietnam" and lose our souls : the missionary impulse, voluntary agencies, and Protestant dissent against the war / Scott Flipse; title: In the modern world, but not of it : the "auca martyrs," evangelicalism, and postwar American culture / Kathryn Long; title: Evangelists of destruction : missions to native Americans in recent film / Jay S.F. Blossom.