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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Un archéologue capucin en Éthiopie (1922-1936) : François Bernardin Azaïs by Amélie Chekroun

“…In 1922, the Capuchin monk François Bernardin Azaïs, a former missionary of the Province of Hārar between 1897 and 1913, was commissioned by the French government to realise some archaeological researches in Ethiopia. …”
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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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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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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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Die ontwikkeling van 'n strategiese gemeentelike ekklesiologie - op pad na 'n missionerende bedieningspraxis by G. Smit

“…A hermeneutic communicative ecclesiology of ministerial practices is used to describe the transfer from a single praxis to missionary ministry. The markers for this ecclesiology consist of Scripture metaphors referring to the church’s identity, her spiritual growth and her service in the Kingdom of God. …”
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History, propaganda, and glory in the early Dominican chronicles of the Philippines by Jorge Mojarro

“…Without exception, all missionary orders engaged in producing these complex texts, which formed part of the typical literary genres of colonial literature. …”
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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht by F. Hale

“…In Doke’s critique of Nietzsche, he also described ethnic and religious clashes and implicitly argued for the moral superiority of Christianity and the ethical need for missionary endeavours. …”
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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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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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Religious plurality in Africa: A challenge to the church

“…This article examines religious plurality in Africa and the implications thereof for South Africa. Three missionary paradigms, viz exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism are analysed after which a theological perspective is offered. …”
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