Protestants Abroad
How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
Will be published approx. on 11. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-691-19278-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
32 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-19278-9 (9780691192789)
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E-Book
09/2018
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€26.49
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Person
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).