Singing to the dead : a missioner's life among refugees from Burma / Victoria Armour-Hileman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armour-Hileman, Victoria, 1958- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mon (Southeast Asian people)--Thailand--Bangkok.

Mon (Southeast Asian people).

Church work with refugees--Thailand--Bangkok.

Church work with refugees.

Refugees--Burma.

Refugees.

Missionaries--Thailand--Bangkok--Biography.

Missionaries.

Catholic Church--Missions--Thailand--Bangkok.

Catholic Church.

Armour-Hileman, Victoria, 1958-.

Armour-Hileman, Victoria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Singing to the Dead recalls a Catholic lay missioner's work alongside the Mon Buddhist monks of Bangkok. An unforgettable story of borders crossed and recrossed--between Catholics and Buddhists, hope and despair, Burma and Thailand, life and death.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""BLESSINGS IN THE RAIN""; ""Flying Buddha""; ""Florence Nightingale""; ""Mothers and Sons""; ""BEYOND RISK""; ""A Soldier in the Jungle""; ""A Basket of Prayers""; ""Dancing with the Hurricane""; ""DEATH RAILWAY""; ""A Letter from Prison""; ""Selling Death""; ""Misunderstandings""; ""Where Our Sympathies Lie""; ""Safe""; ""The Sound of the Prison Gate""; ""A TRUE FRIEND""; ""The Stories We Tell""; ""Where the Poor Search for Justice""; ""Snowy River""; ""CROSSING BORDERS""; ""Presidents and Kings""; ""When Monland Is Free""

""One Step Forward""""Singing to the Dead""; ""THE FACE OF GOD""; ""A Strange Reception""; ""A Case of Stomachache""; ""The Lion and the Dragon""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820326337

082032633X

OCLC:

53956484