THE CONUNDRUM FACING CHRISTIAN TRADITIONAL LEADERS by SJ van der Merwe, OG Thebe

“…Volz (2008:112) concedes that, although European missionaries introduced Batswana to Christianity, they had hardly any control over how early Batswana converts perceived and adapted their teachings. …”
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The trajectories of Christianity and African ritual practices: the public silence and the dilemma of mainline or mission churches by L. Ntombana

“… In South Africa, there are mainly two Christian traditions on Christianity and African ritual practices. One being from missionaries and now mainly trailed by most white Mainline Churches and Pentecostal Churches. …”
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Histoires et pratiques dissonantes dans un ghetto en devenir. Anthropologie contemporaine du cas de Venise by Antonella Di Trani

“…While reviewing the semantic trajectory of the word ghetto and its use in different contexts, this contribution aims to show how the inhabitants, Venetian Jews, and young missionaries or newcomers, appropriate the local history of the ghetto in order to reaffirm their belonging to this "historical place", perceived differently by each in terms of the contemporary ghetto’s issues and transformations. …”
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Os enviados de Dom Bosco entre os Masiripiwëiteri. O impacto missionário sobre o sistema social e cultural dos Yanomami ocidentais (Amazonas, Brasil) by Maria Inês Smiljanic

“…Don Bosco’s messengers among the Masiripiwëiteri. Missionary impact on the social and cultural system of the western Yanomami (state of Amazonas, Brazil). …”
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Vienna, the Spanish Ambassador and the Nuncio: The 3rd Marquis of Aytona and the Fading Catholic Alliance (1624–1629) by Rubén González Cuerva

“…Local contexts were decisive: in Rome, the creation of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide challenged Spanish control over missionaries beyond Europe, while in Madrid the royal favourite Olivares attempted to establish a major Catholic alliance with France and the papacy against the Protestants. …”
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PRESENT-DAY MISSION PARTNERSHIPS by C van Engen

“…Currently, as many full-time cross-cultural missionaries are sent and supported by churches in Asia, Africa and Latin America as those sent from Europe and North America. …”
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La divine comédie dans les Andes ou les tribulations du mort dans son voyage vers l’au-delà by Valérie Robin Azevedo

“…Further on, it shows how the imagination about death was transformed by the missionaries in colonial times. This historical moment is important in order to understand the current relationship between live and dead human beings, as it can be seen in All Saint’s Day. …”
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A Sámi media system? by Rasmussen Torkel, Sara Inker-Anni, Krøvel Roy

“…Numerous Sámi activists and organisations have contributed to the establishment and running of Sámi media – in interaction, cooperation, and conflict with external actors such as missionaries, investors, and state institutions. This has resulted in a rich and vivid Sámi media environment and infrastructure, with many of the characteristics of a media system. …”
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Approche historique de l’agriculture urbaine au Dahomey (Bénin) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The first contacts with the Europeans (residents of forts and trading posts, Christian missionaries) promoted the development of a truck-farming agriculture; then, the colonial administration contributed strongly to rethink the city and agriculture by creating agricultural stations and a new town planning. …”
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Pergeseran Pemaknaan Ritual ‘Merti Dusun’; Studi atas Ritual Warga Dusun Celengan, Tuntang, Semarang by M. Aly Haedar

“…There are altering meanings: from addressing the ritual and prayer to danyang shifted to all of Islamic missionaries; to an assumption that the ritual has deviated from the religious teaching; and there is also person who simply assumed it just as social obligation.…”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Also, Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù’s comments on religion are basically to commend Christianity as introduced in Nigeria by the European missionaries, while Ọbasá’s poetry usually satirizes or lampoons Islamic and traditional religions. …”
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Les débuts d'une revue néo-salafiste : Muhibb al-Dîn al-Khatîb et Al-Fath de 1926 à 1928 by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…The journal meticulously lists all the signs of crisis in the threatened Islamic world : worry in face of increasing Westernisation in the Orient (tafarnuj), anguish and the scandalous feelings in relation to the secular reforms of Kemalist Turkey, worry about the proselyte presence of Christian missionaries in the Orient and the increasing atheism and positivism among Muslims. …”
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Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea through the eyes of foreign contemporaries by Roman Pochekaev

“…The article is an analysis of specific status of the Crimea as a part of the Golden Horde and as it was reflected in the contemporary sources: notes of travelers, diplomats, merchants, missionaries, etc., correspondence of rulers, historical chronicles and hagiographic works based the information of eye-witnesses. …”
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RELIGIOUS EXPANSION OF TURKEY IN TATARSTAN IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD by R. R. Suleymanov

“…Islamic Jamaat of Turkey sent its missionaries to Tatarstan. This led to the fact that some Muslims of Tatarstan began to focus on Turkey and the spiritually obey Turkish sheikhs. …”
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Ancient Hawaiian house lots and their flora: a review of Great Māhele plant claims with a special focus on Pritchardia (loulu) palms by Brien A. Meilleur

“…This is true for the period immediately after Western contact (1778) and for the decades following the arrival of American and European missionaries in the 1820s and 1830s, and indeed for the 19th century generally. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…The study discovers that while the early missionaries left their converts battling with African traditional mythology. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…He blamed the arrival of Western civilisation for permanently compromising Zulu identity as its traders and missionaries brought with them evils which could no longer be eradicated. …”
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« Poraka ? C’est comme nourrir celui qui a tué notre mère… » Parenté, pouvoir et partage dans les missions guarani du Paraguay (xviiie siècle) à l’aune de l’ethnologie et de la lex... by Joaquín Ruiz Zubizarreta, Mickaël Orantin

“…If the analysis of the Jesuit dictionaries shows that the missionaries try to privilege the technical dimension of the term, namely the supply of halieutic and cynegetic resources, an unpublished monolingual Guarani manuscript produced in the missions in the 18th-century shows that in daily language it designates the social dimension, the sharing of the game. …”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“… Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. …”
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Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the “awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier by Silvia Romio

“…All this occurs as a result of experiences resulting from close contact with the earliest agents of government authority to show up in their native homelands: evangelical missionaries and the army. This process led the Awajun to the development of unprecedented forms of “indigenous leadership”, resulting from the assimilation, convergence and reworking of cultural material incorporated during their contacts with religious and military personnel.…”
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