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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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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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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¿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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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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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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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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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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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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Song Melody and Speech Tone Conflict in Translated Yorùbá Christian Hymns by Tolulope Owoaje, Tunde Adegbola

“…In their effort to make early Yorùbá Christian converts sing Christian hymns in the church, European missionaries translated English hymns to Yoruba, and sang them to the original European hymn tunes. …”
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