Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Andrew Porter similarly argued that missionaries were essentially anti-imperial and should be absolved from any guilt surrounding the processes of empire. …”
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Marrons et réfugiés entre Guyane française et Brésil : nouvelles sources et nouvelles approches by Vincent Huyghues-Belrose

“…It then shows the importance of the Jesuit and Spiritan missionaries whose position and role vis-à-vis the fugitives are reconsidered, as well as the influence of the “Portuguese refugees” on French Guiana.…”
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¿Los últimos pacaguaras? by Diego Villar

“…However, during the second half of the 20th Century, several discourses by missionaries, scientists, politicians and even journalists regret the imminent extinction of the «the last of the Pacaguaras», hardly a dozen individuals settled with the Chacobo of Alto Ivon since the 1960s. …”
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Du terrain au Tour du monde : la fabrique du lointain by Victoire Lallouette

“…It is the story of Marquis de Cacqueray de Lorme, a bourgeois heir, who set off in 1895 to find the few French Catholic missionaries in New Guinea, the vast island largely unknown to Westerners.…”
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Les représentations de l’Islam dans les imprimés en nahuatl au service de l’évangélisation du Mexique colonial (1575-1614) by Maxime Pluvinet

“…In the 16th and 17th centuries, missionaries in charge of converting the populations of colonial Mexico to Christianity included in their sermons and treatises recurring references to an age-old enemy of Christendom: Islam. …”
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Interdire, documenter, patrimonialiser. Les chants kapiwaya sous le regard colonial et post-colonial (Nord-Ouest de l’Amazonie, de 1883 à nos jours) by Emilio Frignati

“…It shows that the current patrimonialisation of the kapiwaya and the relative debates are a continuation to the representations and practices promoted by missionaries, soldiers and politicians since the end of the 19th century. …”
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Réfugiés et migrants dans les églises protestantes évangéliques libanaises : Recompositions identitaires et enjeux sociaux by Fatiha Kaoues

“…Therefore, these foreigners are ideal targets for evangelical missionaries who wish to convert them. Thus, refugees and migrant domestic workers, who are welcomed in these churches develop new forms of sociability. …”
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Manger la parole de Dieu. La Bible lue par les Wari’ by Aparecida Vilaça

“…This paper deals with one particular aspect of Christianity as experienced by the Wari’ (Amazonia, Brazil): the interest they take in the Bible, which has been translated into their language by the New Tribes missionaries who have been living among them for nearly fifty years now. …”
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Les nouveaux espaces publics chez les Yucuna d’Amazonie colombienne by Laurent Fontaine

“…It is only with the entrance of the rubber exploiters, state officials and missionaries, that the Yucuna communities were forced to open up to the surrounding society. …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…These hermeneutical lenses function as theoretical tools to analyse and grapple with the question of the strategies used by Western missionaries. The reception and transmission of the Bible in Africa was not an innocent enterprise. …”
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Protestantes, curanderos y descreídos. Misiones interiores, religiosidad nacional-católica e intolerancia durante el primer franquismo, 1940-1960 by Francisco Bernal García

“…This article explores this interpretation by analysing three aspects of the missionaries’ actions: their efforts to harass Protestant communities; their struggles against quackery and other manifestations of the «common religion»; and the pressures they exerted against those who claimed to have no religious beliefs of any kind.…”
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Entre passé et présent, entre migration et exil : les Espagnols et leurs descendants au Venezuela by Valentin Braud

“…Nevertheless, the fact of isolating the migrants, the exiles and the missionaries does not seem consistent with the reality of the Spanish migration in Venezuela during the years 1940-1950. …”
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Être musulmane dans un système scolaire dominé par des chrétiens : expériences d’élèves tanzaniennes (années 1930-années 1970) by Florence Wenzek

“…After presenting the Tanzanian school landscape, structured by the colonial and post-colonial authorities, missionaries, and various Muslim actors, the article uses interviews and school archives to uncover pupils' experiences. …”
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«Lo que son los sirionoses hoy, eran, hace algunos decenios, los guarayos». Algunas reflexiones sobre la conquista y reducción de los Sirionó, 1926-1943 by Pilar García Jordán

“…This article tries to display the most significant aspects of the missionary project developed by the Franciscans to conquer and submit the Sirionó (Bolivian Amazon), by showing how far they applied the strategy already undertaken one hundred years earlier with the Guarayo. …”
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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY by Edet Efiong Okon

“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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Reversing the biblical tide: what Kuruman teaches London about mission in a post-colonial era by S. de Gruchy

“… Through a case study focusing on the shift from the London Missionary Society (LMS) to the Council for World Mission (CWM) this essay argues that there is a hermeneutical circle between the Bible and mission. …”
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Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei by L. Modise

“…Second, the article focuses on the way in which missionaries have taught African converts to interpret the Bible on many serious human rights issues. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…We will try to determine if the representations took different forms whether they were produced by missionaries, traveller-artists or scientists. To what extent does the individual experience become a collective experience? …”
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Routes africaines vers Le Caire et dynamiques chrétiennes plurielles by Julie Picard

“…Without legal recognition and integration policy, they access various resources and anchoring means from the bottom, in particular through several Christian missionaries’ institutions, faith-based organizations and for some, through their flexible religious path. …”
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