THE CONUNDRUM FACING CHRISTIAN TRADITIONAL LEADERS by SJ van der Merwe, OG Thebe

“…Volz (2008:112) concedes that, although European missionaries introduced Batswana to Christianity, they had hardly any control over how early Batswana converts perceived and adapted their teachings. …”
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The trajectories of Christianity and African ritual practices: the public silence and the dilemma of mainline or mission churches by L. Ntombana

“… In South Africa, there are mainly two Christian traditions on Christianity and African ritual practices. One being from missionaries and now mainly trailed by most white Mainline Churches and Pentecostal Churches. …”
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Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea through the eyes of foreign contemporaries by Roman Pochekaev

“…The article is an analysis of specific status of the Crimea as a part of the Golden Horde and as it was reflected in the contemporary sources: notes of travelers, diplomats, merchants, missionaries, etc., correspondence of rulers, historical chronicles and hagiographic works based the information of eye-witnesses. …”
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« Poraka ? C’est comme nourrir celui qui a tué notre mère… » Parenté, pouvoir et partage dans les missions guarani du Paraguay (xviiie siècle) à l’aune de l’ethnologie et de la lex... by Joaquín Ruiz Zubizarreta, Mickaël Orantin

“…If the analysis of the Jesuit dictionaries shows that the missionaries try to privilege the technical dimension of the term, namely the supply of halieutic and cynegetic resources, an unpublished monolingual Guarani manuscript produced in the missions in the 18th-century shows that in daily language it designates the social dimension, the sharing of the game. …”
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Approche historique de l’agriculture urbaine au Dahomey (Bénin) by Dominique Juhé-Beaulaton

“…The first contacts with the Europeans (residents of forts and trading posts, Christian missionaries) promoted the development of a truck-farming agriculture; then, the colonial administration contributed strongly to rethink the city and agriculture by creating agricultural stations and a new town planning. …”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Also, Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù’s comments on religion are basically to commend Christianity as introduced in Nigeria by the European missionaries, while Ọbasá’s poetry usually satirizes or lampoons Islamic and traditional religions. …”
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Les débuts d'une revue néo-salafiste : Muhibb al-Dîn al-Khatîb et Al-Fath de 1926 à 1928 by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…The journal meticulously lists all the signs of crisis in the threatened Islamic world : worry in face of increasing Westernisation in the Orient (tafarnuj), anguish and the scandalous feelings in relation to the secular reforms of Kemalist Turkey, worry about the proselyte presence of Christian missionaries in the Orient and the increasing atheism and positivism among Muslims. …”
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Ancient Hawaiian house lots and their flora: a review of Great Māhele plant claims with a special focus on Pritchardia (loulu) palms by Brien A. Meilleur

“…This is true for the period immediately after Western contact (1778) and for the decades following the arrival of American and European missionaries in the 1820s and 1830s, and indeed for the 19th century generally. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard in Zululand: A Reluctant Imperialist? by Marie-Claude BARBIER

“…He blamed the arrival of Western civilisation for permanently compromising Zulu identity as its traders and missionaries brought with them evils which could no longer be eradicated. …”
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„Nie wierzę w bajki!”: Henrietta Regina Davidson Avram (1919–2006) by Joanna Gajowiecka-Misztal

“…Przyspieszyło to automatyzację bibliotek i sprawiło, że bibliotekarze przestali być postrzegani tylko jako „missionaries of books” i przeszli do świata informacji naukowej.     …”
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W.V.O. Quine’s “Indeterminacy Thesis of Radical Translation” and the Logic Problem in the Expression of African Thoughts by Emmanuel Ofuasia (csp)

“… Western missionaries, ethnographic and anthropological scholars arrived in Africa, quizzed the pre-colonial African, and adjudged her, pre-critical and pre-logical, since the latter could not disclose or express thoughts according to the dictates or criteria initiated by the former. …”
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Shall we kill again? Violence and intimacy among the “awajun “new leaders” in the northeastern Peruvian frontier by Silvia Romio

“…All this occurs as a result of experiences resulting from close contact with the earliest agents of government authority to show up in their native homelands: evangelical missionaries and the army. This process led the Awajun to the development of unprecedented forms of “indigenous leadership”, resulting from the assimilation, convergence and reworking of cultural material incorporated during their contacts with religious and military personnel.…”
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Espaces et processus de politisation de l’humanitaire. L’Armenian Relief Fund et le National Armenian Relief Committee (1895-1896) : un miroir transatlantique ? by Stéphanie Prévost

“…The study also investigates how Anglo-American cooperation between in loco actors distributing relief on behalf of the NARC and the ARF (especially American missionaries, British private agents and consuls) could best develop on the margins of British and American metropolitan spaces; but it also insists that it required a facilitator: here, British ambassador at Constantinople Sir Philip Currie. …”
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THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN THEOLOGY IN THE GLOBAL CHRISTIAN CONFIGURATION: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES by ALEXANDER NDUBUISI ABONYI

“…In the case of African theology, African theologians feel that Western missionaries denigrated and rubbished African traditional religions and culture, dubbing them to be primitive, satanic and archaic. …”
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The Ecuadorian State in the southeastern frontier: a creation based on affection, 1893-1964 by Cecilia Ortiz-Batallas

“…It is argued that in those remote frontier territories, the Salesian missionaries became the actual and real proxy of the central government as well as of other external powers: the House of Don Bosco and the Vatican. …”
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Les premiers colons de l’ancienne Haïti et leurs attaches en métropole, à l’aube des premiers établissements (1650-1700) by Philippe Hroděj

“…This population was heterogeneous: from the indentured servant (enlisted to cultivate tobacco or to hunt) to the officer, from the deserter to the settler, to the missionaries, buccaneers, pirates, or privateers, so many originally different lives finally met in America. …”
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Peddling Wonderment, Selling Privilege: Launching the Market for Medieval Books in Antebellum New York by Scott Gwara

“…Ancestral ownership of books brought by early settlers; 2. Acquisitions by missionaries and scholars; 3. Mementos acquired by elites on European Grand Tours; 4. …”
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Emigration of South Africans to the West: Sociological and missiological implications by Christopher Magezi

“…The article dialogued with relevant literature to accomplish the proposed objective and provide an overview of the push and pull factors of why South Africans emigrate to the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States of America, New Zealand and many other countries, all of which used to send missionaries abroad, but they are now experiencing exponential growth in atheism. …”
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History of Pain Research and Management in Canada by Harold Merskey

“…Scattered accounts of the treatment of pain by aboriginal Canadians are found in the journals of the early explorers and missionaries. French and English settlers brought with them the remedies of their home countries. …”
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A Problem of Perspective: Religions in Africa or African Traditional Religion by Osman Şahin

“…The works written by Christian missionaries, anthropologists, soldiers and researchers on religious life in Africa, both before and after the colonial period, have been the trendsetters of the "religion in Africa" literature. …”
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