Les Catholiques à Constantinople. Galata et les églises de rite latin au xviie siècle by Elisabetta Borromeo

“…On the base of the accounts of the catholic missionaries and some Ottoman documents (kept in the archives of Saint Peter and Paul’s church in Istanbul), this study examines the legal status of these Catholics, their distribution in the urban space as well as the means they used to expressing their identity.…”
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Andrew Porter similarly argued that missionaries were essentially anti-imperial and should be absolved from any guilt surrounding the processes of empire. …”
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Du terrain au Tour du monde : la fabrique du lointain by Victoire Lallouette

“…It is the story of Marquis de Cacqueray de Lorme, a bourgeois heir, who set off in 1895 to find the few French Catholic missionaries in New Guinea, the vast island largely unknown to Westerners.…”
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Interdire, documenter, patrimonialiser. Les chants kapiwaya sous le regard colonial et post-colonial (Nord-Ouest de l’Amazonie, de 1883 à nos jours) by Emilio Frignati

“…It shows that the current patrimonialisation of the kapiwaya and the relative debates are a continuation to the representations and practices promoted by missionaries, soldiers and politicians since the end of the 19th century. …”
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¿Los últimos pacaguaras? by Diego Villar

“…However, during the second half of the 20th Century, several discourses by missionaries, scientists, politicians and even journalists regret the imminent extinction of the «the last of the Pacaguaras», hardly a dozen individuals settled with the Chacobo of Alto Ivon since the 1960s. …”
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Réfugiés et migrants dans les églises protestantes évangéliques libanaises : Recompositions identitaires et enjeux sociaux by Fatiha Kaoues

“…Therefore, these foreigners are ideal targets for evangelical missionaries who wish to convert them. Thus, refugees and migrant domestic workers, who are welcomed in these churches develop new forms of sociability. …”
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Les nouveaux espaces publics chez les Yucuna d’Amazonie colombienne by Laurent Fontaine

“…It is only with the entrance of the rubber exploiters, state officials and missionaries, that the Yucuna communities were forced to open up to the surrounding society. …”
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Manger la parole de Dieu. La Bible lue par les Wari’ by Aparecida Vilaça

“…This paper deals with one particular aspect of Christianity as experienced by the Wari’ (Amazonia, Brazil): the interest they take in the Bible, which has been translated into their language by the New Tribes missionaries who have been living among them for nearly fifty years now. …”
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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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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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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…These hermeneutical lenses function as theoretical tools to analyse and grapple with the question of the strategies used by Western missionaries. The reception and transmission of the Bible in Africa was not an innocent enterprise. …”
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Entre passé et présent, entre migration et exil : les Espagnols et leurs descendants au Venezuela by Valentin Braud

“…Nevertheless, the fact of isolating the migrants, the exiles and the missionaries does not seem consistent with the reality of the Spanish migration in Venezuela during the years 1940-1950. …”
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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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LEADING THEORIES IN AKWA IBOM COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY by Edet Efiong Okon

“…European scholars, missionaries, historians and scientists were dislodged to perfect Britain's ambitions in Akwa Ibom area through various ideological and pseudo-scientific postulations. …”
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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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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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Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei by L. Modise

“…Second, the article focuses on the way in which missionaries have taught African converts to interpret the Bible on many serious human rights issues. …”
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Representation and Reception of the Image of the Zulu. From Travel Accounts to the Public Sphere in Mid-Victorian and Edwardian Great Britain (1850–1914) by Patricia Crouan-Véron

“…We will try to determine if the representations took different forms whether they were produced by missionaries, traveller-artists or scientists. To what extent does the individual experience become a collective experience? …”
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Routes africaines vers Le Caire et dynamiques chrétiennes plurielles by Julie Picard

“…Without legal recognition and integration policy, they access various resources and anchoring means from the bottom, in particular through several Christian missionaries’ institutions, faith-based organizations and for some, through their flexible religious path. …”
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