Protestant Missions Collections

The Protestant Legacy: Missions and Literacy in India

As an important expression of culture, religion represents a possible fundamental source of economic and social outcomes. This paper investigates how the historical development of Protestantism may contribute to explain current literacy disparities in India. In order to enable everyone to read the Bible by themselves, Protestants have always stressed the importance of promoting universal litera...

Cloning in Protestant perspective.

The Vanishing Protestant Majority

1 Advantages of using the GSS include a) its measurement of Protestants has not changed over the years, b) its high quality (e.g. its high overall response rate and low item non-response on religion), and c) its large sample size (over 43,000 respondents in 1972-2002).

Conflicting protestant views on euthanasia.

Defeatism and Northern Protestant ‘Identity’

Looking at the academic literature and media commentary, one can detect a shift in the identification of northern protestants. Once they were identified, and identified themselves in terms of modernity, triumph, and rationalism; increasingly they are identified and identify themselves in terms of tradition, defeat and associated emotions such as confusion, alienation, fatalism, resentment, fear...