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In the way : a study of Christian missionary endeavors / Kenelm Burridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burridge, Kenelm.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions.
- Missions--Anthropological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines missionaries and the work they do from a new perspective, combining anthropology with insights from history, sociology, missiology and theology, in an attempt to expose and explicate the contradictions and ambiguities involved in missionary endeavours.
- Contents:
- Christian contrariness; aspirations and community; complexities in community; occasions and transformations; millenarisms, secularization and adaptations; missiology and anthropology; conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22601-4
- 9786613226013
- 0-7748-5662-9
- OCLC:
- 243616470
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