Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America

Hollinger, David A.

ISBN 10: 0691192782 / ISBN 13: 9780691192789

Verlag: Princeton University Press (edition Reprint), 2019

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They sought to transform the globe and ended up transforming modern America

Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. David Hollinger reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. Protestants Abroad reveals the crucial role they played in the development of modern American liberalism, and shows how they helped other Americans reimagine their nation’s place in the world.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: David A. Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History (Princeton).

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Titel: Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press (edition Reprint)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: Reprint.