Sally Merry’s (1999) Colonizing Hawai’i: The Cultural Power of Law provides a compelling account of the cultural transformation of the Kingdom of Hawaii in the nineteenth century. The focus is on the law, particularly on the manner in which Hawaiian alii (chiefs) and American lawyers and missionaries sought to make of Hawaii a modern, sovereign nation on the model of the ‘‘civilized world,’’ a ...

Strategic priorities are commonly implemented by both profit and non-profit institutions, but rarely employed religious congregations. The congregation of the Missionaries Sacred Heart (MSC), an institution in Catholic Church, has undertaken empirical study, using a combination SWOT fuzzy-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodologies. Four strategies were employed. First, strategy S-O (30.1%),...

Abstract This article discusses recent work on cross-cultural interactions between missionaries and Central Africans, including Images a Mission by Cécile Fromont, Religious Entanglements David Maxwell, “What Is Religion in Africa?” Birgit Meyer. These works adopt an entangled approach, examining how Christianisation engendered interconnections Africans Africa Europe. In this way, the paint nua...

Background: Elective Abortion means termination of pregnancy by drugs or manipulation. The aim of this research is to evaluate the challenges of elective abortion in Iranian society. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study is done on 113 pregnant women wanted to do abortion who referred to Dr Rasekh clinic that were studied through a questionnaire with six questions. Collection of informa...

Though rural Protestant missionaries stationed in Cuba routinely reproduced Anglo-American epistemologies and values, often the service of US corporations, they also worked alongside their parishioners to challenge state economic violence, as well break cyclical nature Cuban poverty. Shared struggle with Cubans against Fulgencio Batista’s dictatorship proved transformative for many who, late 19...

The results of medical examinations carried out on 212 missionary personnel from one missionary society returning on leave to the UK are presented. The great majority of missionaries worked in developing countries. They served in 27 countries altogether and for a total of 488 person years. The commonest illnesses reported overseas were malaria (87.3 per 1000 person years at risk), diarrhoea (63...