Although the first, pioneer missionaries o f the D. R. C. Mission were not fully qualified medical doctors, they played a big role in introducing western medicine among the indigenous population and in this way countered the practice o f the witch-doctors. With their limited knowledge o f medicine, they knew enough to treat the indigenous people, their fellow missionaries as well as other peopl...

This historical narrative highlights the origin and development of the dental hygiene profession in South Korea. The legacy of early American missionaries to Korea includes profound and long-lasting contributions in medicine, education and theology. Many of Korea's top universities today have their roots in the missionary schools of the late nineteenth century, including Yonsei University, home...

This article analyzes the contemporary presence of pioneering missionaries to Marshall Islands by looking at how conventional conversion narratives construe them as agents radical transformation. Ridden with ambiguity, is a recursive factor in social and political life, fact that point context-dependent nature this specific narrative. While rupture often serves useful metaphor folk-models conve...

During the 19th Century, more than 2000 children of sub-Saharan origin were redeemed from slavery by missionaries and educated in Europe with aim sending them back to Africa as «indigenous missionaries». Yet, so far this phenomenon has found no place historiography collective memory. Forgotten, perhaps, or removed. The so-called «moretti» not mere anonymous satellites, orbiting around European ...