Some Customary Law Nuance on that Hagiography: Attempt of Interpretations by Marius Ščavinskas

“…But earlier mentioned motives for killing the missionaries don't allow giving prominence to sacral motives. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…During the colonial period, they became artefacts collected by Europeans, particularly missionaries. Their acquisition led to a break with their original context and a change in function, and the calabashes were reused for propaganda purposes, particularly to justify the missionaries’ actions in the field and demonstrate their effectiveness. …”
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Quviasukvik. The celebration of an Inuit winter feast in the central Arctic by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten

“…Many old ideas and practices did not die as easily as missionaries or Inuit assumed, but returned in a new guise. …”
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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“… The Western missionaries and colonialists pushed a similar agenda of subjugating the receptor’s core aspects of life. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…Cut off from participation in divine will, the autonomous will of Protestant Christian missionaries became the basis for organizing the world of the 19th-century Sotho speakers. …”
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REVISITING THE CONCEPT OF THE JAVANESE ISLAM: GENEALOGY, ACADEMIC REPRESENTATION, AND CULTURAL STRATEGY by Achmad Tohe

“…Based on selected literature sources, the results show that the syncretic Javanese Islamic concept formulated by missionaries and orientalists tends to be highly theological due to the Christian framework used. …”
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene

“…In the first phase, from 1555 to 1603, the missionaries undertook to convert King Gälawdewos and his court in return for military support from Portugal but had to face opposition from his successor, Minas (r.1559–1563). …”
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Kebijakan Politik Pragmatis Strategis Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (1546-1570) terhadap Portugis by Mufti Ali

“…The intensive arrival of the Portuguese catholic missionaries to Banten to give spiritual guidance to their fellow citizens can be associated with the fact that many Portuguese stayed in Banten. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reversing the biblical tide: what Kuruman teaches London about mission in a post-colonial era by S. de Gruchy

“… Through a case study focusing on the shift from the London Missionary Society (LMS) to the Council for World Mission (CWM) this essay argues that there is a hermeneutical circle between the Bible and mission. …”
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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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