Faith’s Frontiers: An Exploration of Religious Syncretism and Cultural Adaptation in the “Guanyin/Madonna and Child” Painting by Zetong Liu, Hui Zeng, Junming Chen

“…It was proposed that the painting, on display at the British Museum, reflects not only the European depiction of the <i>Madonna of Humility</i> but also the Jesuit missionary influence and the clandestine religious practices of Chinese Christians during periods of persecution. …”
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INTEGRATING THEORY AND PRAXIS IN EMPIRICAL MISSIOLOGY by M. Ehmann

“…While academic lectures on contextual theologies often focus on macro contexts or meso contexts, the concept of the lecture on context analysis at Ewersbach University of Applied Arts strives to focus on the micro context of missionary action. This lecture and the ensuing two-week internship “Missionary social space analysis” take place at the end of the BA programme. …”
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Interpretação do espaço social da Região Histórica das Missões Jesuítico-Guarani: uma dialética com as reflexões do francês Guy Di Méo by Muriel Pinto

“…However, the lack of studies focused on the analysis of the construction of the missionary identity and its relations with the transformations of space. …”
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Fidèles au spectacle by Mélisande Leventopoulos

“…Thus, answering the call of the Church, catholic missionary spectators appeared in the diocese of Paris. …”
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Ecclesiastics and Indigenous Slavery on the Frontier: The Case of Chile in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Constanza López Lamerain

“…Generally, historiography has only analyzed missionary relations with the Mapuche people on the Mapuche-Hispanic frontier. …”
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El testimonio de Joaquina Grefa, una cautiva quichua entre los huaorani (Ecuador, 1945) by María Susana Cipolletti

“…In 1944, a group of Huaorani kidnapped a Quichua girl, who escaped a year later and narrated the story of her life among the Huaorani to an English missionary. Back then, relations between the Huaorani and the surrounding society were exclusively aggressive. …”
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Case Study of The Divine Shepherdess Painting by Megan Crouch

“…The painting was used in missionary work during the Spanish Colonial period in New Spain (1492-1821). …”
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Proclaiming the gospel in Macedonia, Achaia and in every place. Missions and 1 Thessalonians 1:6-8 by P. G. R. de Villiers

“…Paul is often regarded as the zealous missionary who took the rural, Palestinian gospel of Jesus to key cities in the Roman Empire and thus contributed decisively to the founding of Christianity. …”
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Debating Igbo conversion to Christianity: a critical indigenous view by F. Hale

“…Obinkaram added their voices to the debate through their fictional reconstructions of the confrontation of missionary Christianity and traditional cultures. That of Onuora Nzekwu is explored in this article. …”
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Tyd as gawe - God se tyd: die polsslag van die kerkjaar by E. Kloppers

“… When seen as a gift – as God’s time – the careful shaping of the church year strengthens the celebratory character of the worship service; contributes to the effective proclamation of the Word; underlies the church’s confession; introduces new people and young people to the faith; forms community; adds to comforting people; exerts healing; anchors the church’s diaconal work; contributes to missionary proclamation to “outsiders”; and reflects the ecumenical character of the church service. …”
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Twenty-first century cultural and religious diversification of modernity: the example of the shamanic indigenisation of Roman Catholicism among Native American peoples in the North... by Frédéric Dorel

“…An example is the growing shamanic indigenization of missionary Roman Catholicism by Native American communities in the Northwest of the United States. …”
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Dr. Andries Albertus Odendaal Snr., evangeliedraer in 'n multi-dimensionele konteks. 'n Kort historiese oorsig en sendingkundige evaluering van sy lewe en werk (Deel 2) by P. Robinson

“… This is the second of two articles which briefly introduce the life and work of a so-called “local missionary” of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. …”
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The Importance of Trade for Reverend E. M. Lijadu and the Evangelist Band Mission by Joseph Osuolale Ayodokun

“…The EBM whih operated in close association with the Church Missionary Society, but was financially independent and self-supporting. …”
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Rosja Katarzyny II w Zapiskach Louisa Philippe’a de Ségura by Jolanta Kazimierczyk-Kuncer

“…Against the background of his intricately crafted missionary strategy, whose aim was to sign a trade treaty with Russia, Ségur draws a distinctive portrait of the tsarina and her favourite, Potiomkin, skilfully smuggling in a criticism of their reformation activities. …”
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Le Saint-Siège et les élites en Extrême-Orient : la création des universités catholiques de Pékin et de Tokyo, Fu-jen et Sophia (1908-1936) by Olivier Sibre

“…The foundation of the universities Furen in Beijing and Sophia in Tokyo expresses the will of the Holy See to convert the elites of the westernized Far East, and to give to these institutions a real universal dimension, catholic, in front of the tensions between the missionary institutes and congregations, but also in front of the cultural et political strategies of the great powers towards the Christians missions. …”
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Appropriating the closure of Jesuit missions: Fritz Hochwälder's Das heilige Experiment by F. Hale

“… Since the eighteenth century the history of the Jesuit missionary endeavours in South America, especially their forced closure in 1760s, has been used rhetorically by writers in several genres, providing them with historical evidence to support a variety of latter-day causes. …”
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L’expulsion du métropolite copte Yā‘ǝqob (1337-1344) par le roi ‘Amda Ṣǝyon (1314-1344) : une politique de tolérance vis-à-vis des communautés musulmanes d’Éthiopie ?... by Martina Ambu

“…This contribution aims to expand the extant investigations on the confrontations that took place between the Christian king of Ethiopia ‘Amda Ṣǝyon (1314-1344), the Egyptian metropolitan Yā‘ǝqob (1337-1344) and the missionary monks from the Takla Haymānot’s network. …”
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Bourdonnements des insectes et musique de David : image sonore de l’Éthiopie chez le père franciscain Remedius Prutký (1752) by Anne Damon-Guillot

“…A sensory-oriented reading of this text is possible by paying attention to the way the catholic missionary "hears" orthodox Christian Ethiopia. This yields a new, sensory understanding of the perception of otherness. …”
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José Olallo Valdés: a Cuban male nurse to be remembered by Onassys Barreiro Alberdi, Yanet Blanco Fleites

“…José Olallo was a monk of the Order San Juan de Dios, who assumed infirmary practice as his profession, with a considerable humanist approach. He was a missionary who devoted his life to relief other people´s pain, no matter their religion, race, or social status, with no material profits for himself. …”
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