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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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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„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 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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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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