Les scénarios de localisation des capitales, révélateurs des conceptions de l’unité nationale by Géraldine Djament-Tran

“…Various scenarios are identified and graphically represented in this article, based more specifically on the debates in Italy in the second half of the 19th century and in Germany in 1991: the central capital, the border capital, the historical capital, the missionary capital and the hinge capital. They can serve, alone or combined, to explain the location of today’s capitals.In a second part, we investigate the links between territory and politics revealed by the location of a capital. …”
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The critique of Gikuyu religion and culture in S.N. Ngubiah's A Curse from God by F. Hale

“… The relationship between missionary Christianity and traditional African cultures was a prominent theme in post-colonial literature during and for many years after the era of decolonisation. …”
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¿Cómo se duerme a un bebé en la Amazonía? Apropiación del villancico chachapoyano Niño Manuelito como canto de cuna en varios grupos de la red Ucayali-Amazonas by Alejandro Prieto Mendoza

“…I propose that the carol Niño Manuelito circulated in the Ucayali-Amazonas network due to Franciscan missionary work and forced migrations during the first rubber boom (1879-1912); in turn, the melody was reinterpreted as a lullaby and then spread throughout this river network and adapted to the characteristics of the song present in the region. …”
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L'Inde de 1919 à 1941 : nationalismes, « communalisme », prosélytisme et fondamentalisme by Marc Gaborieau

“…Deterioration in the relations between the two religious communities went hand in hand with this double rupture : this confrontation was known as « commu-nalism » in Anglo-Indian parlance. Proselyte missionary organisations were created in the two communities, including the Tablîghî Jamâ'at for Muslims in 1927.…”
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From Mission to Church: Nature, Spatiality, and Catholicism in Kikwit (DRC) by Mick Feyaerts

“…Moreover, the research suggests that the Catholic Church’s transformation from a missionary institution to a (more or less) independent Church in Kikwit relied heavily on nature because it allowed further development of both the apostolic and contemplative functions of the Church.…”
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Altai alphabet with cyrillic graphics by DİLBƏR

“…Tsarist Russia used these alphabets, called the "missionary alphabet" in Turkology, to bring the Turkic peoples under its rule and assimilate them as it wished. …”
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İngiltere – Amerika – Osmanlı Hattında Lancaster Öğretim Sistemi by Ayşe Aksu

“…Yerli kaynaklarımızda ve Osmanlı arşiv belgelerinde bu sistem hakkında isim verilmeksizin ve Amerikalı misyonerlerin katkısına değinilmeksizin çok yüzeysel bilgilere rastlanmaktadır. Oysa konu, The Missionary Herald’larda yer alan misyoner raporlarında detaylı bir biçimde anlatılmıştır. …”
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A New Monograph on the Bulgarian Mission of Dr. Albert Long by Lilia Zheleva

“…Maria Pileva’s monograph focuses on the immense impact of American missionary Dr. Albert Limerick Long on the spiritual and cultural growth of the Bulgarian people and the national and political liberation of the Bulgarians from the Ottoman rule. …”
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Henri Bergson et les conservateurs espagnols (1907-1940)/I by Camille Lacau Saint-Guily

“…The philosopher Henri Bergson, a very strong intellectual authority in his country between 1900 and 1920, enlisted as a missionary of the Allied cause in the world. This diplomatic engagement increases the effect of religious rejection, as a Catholic "modernist", since 1907, he must face a political backlash. …”
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Waaihoek se N.G. sendinggemeente in Bloemfontein: 1891-1903 by R. M. Britz

“…In 1895, the Waaihoek church, which was related to the (white) Dutch Reformed congregation of Bloemfontein, obtained a religious teacher, who was eventually ordained as missionary in 1897. Tension grew within the congregation because of the influx of black Basotho people who neither understood Dutch nor had the culture of the initial “Coloured” (brown) members. …”
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The History of a Genuine Fake Philosophical Treatise (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob and Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat). Episode 1: The Time of Discovery. From Being Part of a Collection to Becoming a... by Anaïs Wion

“…In the middle of the nineteenth century, in the Ethiopian highlands, a Catholic missionary named Giusto d’Urbino chose to put an end to his evangelizing activities and resolved to devote himself fully to studying Ge’ez, Amharic, and Ethiopia’s Orthodox civilization. …”
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L’histoire d’un vrai faux traité philosophique (Ḥatatā Zar’a Yā‘eqob et Ḥatatā Walda Ḥeywat). Épisode 1 : Le temps de la découverte. De l’entrée en collection à l’édition scientifi... by Anaïs Wion

“…On the Ethiopian highlands in the middle of the 19th century, Juste d’Urbin, a Catholic missionary, chose to stop evangelizing and devote himself fully to the study of the Ge’ez and Amharic languages and of the country’s Orthodox civilization. …”
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Une construction des immigrants musulmans : La mosquée, un espace des communautés musulmanes au Japon by Keiko Sakurai

“…International networks also play a role in the development of mosques in that they provide access to fundamentalist preachers, missionary groups and foreign donations. Á comparative evaluation of Mosques in Japan will allow us to better understand the role of Mosques both as places of worship and as communitarian spaces.…”
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Apostoł Andrzej – osoba i imię by Bożena Hrynkiewicz-Adamskich

“…It also concisely describes the apocrypha about his missionary activities in Greece, Pontus, Thrace and Scythia, as well as the sources and reasons behind the development of his cult in Europe, including the Slavic nations. …”
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Rethinking the roles of pastoralists’ indigenous religious practices in Nuer nation Zone, Gambella Region, South-West Ethiopia by Chayot Gatdet

“…These indigenous religion systems faced increasing severe exposure to missionary activities (42%), modernization (35), political marginalization (30), and socio-political instability (28) that disrupts traditional governance structures. …”
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The Crisis of Madrasa Graduates: A Search for Identity in the Pakistani Society by Farid Bın Masood, Umair Ali Khan

“…A large number of graduates join voluntary missionary organizations and religious political parties. …”
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Social and Cultural Integration: A Discourse Analysis of Islamic Themes in the Basis Magazine, 1998–2000 by Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri

“…This research aims to understand why Basis, with its Catholic missionary vision and spirit, embraced Islamic themes during the 1998–2000 period and to what extent these Islamic and Islamic-themed articles reflect the journal's mission of interreligious dialogue in response to the "cultural freedom" of the Reform Era. …”
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Foreign Policy Niche of Small States: The Problem of Choice (The Case of Baltic States) by V. A. Smirnov

“…The following research inference is made: by means of conflict model which is being realized within external political niche ("gate-keeper" and "missionary" types) political elite of the Baltic states gain additional resources in the middle-term perspective. …”
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Integração ou separação? Uma reflexão sobre a governança territorial no Prata a partir da construção da ponte da integração São Borja-Brasil/ Santo Tomé-Argentina by Muriel Pinto, Ronaldo Bernardino Colvero, Alex Sander Barcellos Retamoso

“…This research problematized how the socio-territorial governance took place during the process of construction of the integration bridge between these twin cities São Borja-Sao Tome, for which a sociohistorical analysis of the missionary region was carried out; Analysis of socio-spatial and cultural dynamics of the frontier region studied; National and international bibliographic review on border studies in the Prata basin; Reflections on territorial actors and their geographic scales of power; New jurisdictions on border issues; Analysis of the social narratives generated during the bridge construction period. …”
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Tanzanya’da Leibzig Misyoner Cemiyeti Misyonerliği, Karşılaşılan Zorluklar ve Kullanılan Yöntemler by Şeyma Han, Şahin Kızılabdullah

“…Tanzanya’da LMS dışında; Katolik Kutsal Ruh Babaları (Holy Ghost Father/ Spiritanlar), Katolik Beyaz Babalar (Peres Blancs), Katolik Benediktinler, Anglikan Kilise Misyon Topluluğu (Chuch Missionary Society) CMS, Anglikan Üniversitelerin Orta Afrika Misyonu (The Universities’ Mission to Central Africa) UMCA gibi misyon grupları mevcuttur. …”
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