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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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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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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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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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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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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« 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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