Soon after their arrival to Korea, Christian missionaries were confronted by decisions regarding how they would present written materials to the Korean people. While many Koreans used their indigenous script (Hangeul) for everyday purposes, higher status literacy materials were expected to be presented using Chinese characters (Hanja), a system unfamiliar to most but considered more prestigious...

In this essay, I investigate the Paulician communities that lived in Ottoman Bulgaria between 17th and 18th centuries. At end of 16th century, a group Bosnian Franciscans founded Catholic mission there began to convert Paulicians. However, religious conduct remained tied ancient customs, traditions rituals perceived by missionaries as superstitions. particular, vast majority converts continued ...

In February 2010, a group of American missionaries went to Haiti to assist children orphaned in the January earthquake. The group had plans to set up an orphanage in the Dominican Republic and to transport orphaned children across the border, eventually arranging adoptions into American families. The group was arrested during this process when government agencies discovered the missionaries had...

Since the 1970s the dynamics of conversion have been a focal point of research with regard to the impact of Christianity on traditional African societies. Much of the scholarly debate about the matter has concentrated on West Africa. Such academic authorities as Elizabeth Isichei, Robin Horton, and Caroline Ifeka-Moller provided different theories about the relative importance of various factor...

Nowadays the global changes process and various developments in various fields of economic, social and cultural rights at the national level have led to present the issue of religion in the country as a sub-category alongside other categories. The aim of this study is to investigate the methods of tendency to religion and effective factors on it among high school students in Andimeshk. The data...

This study examines the insertion of Biblical sources as references in Tafsir Soerat Wal-’Asri by Siti Chayati, a Javanese Quranic exegete who interprets chapter 103 (al-Asr) Quran using Script. The Chayati’s work some verses Barnabas, Matthew, and John its references, is unique thought-provoking to understand motives historical background. finds that use Bible her was aimed strengthen claims o...

The positions of Pedro Arata, Moisés Santiago Bertoni, Carlos Leonhardt and Guillermo Furlong in the debate about the role of the Society of Jesus in the introduction and development of science in the La Plata region are investigated. Written between 1890 and the late 1950s, these authors' works not only analyze the medical, pharmaceutical and botanical knowledge of the Jesuit missionaries in t...

Several studies have argued that learning a foreign language has the potential to increase the general cognitive ability and test scores of students. In this analysis, the Mormon missionary program is used to test whether or not students who were assigned to learn a foreign language performed better in college. The results indicate that the increase in GPA due to serving a Mormon mission is the...

Leprosy has received scant attention in discussions of health in colonial India, which have focused on imperial and colonial politics, and on state intervention.1 Nongovernmental efforts, of which leprosy offers an important instance, have been neglected.2 In this article I discuss the dissemination of western medicine for leprosy in colonial India, which was largely the work of Christian missi...