In her article "Evans's and Cheevers's Quaker Missionary Travels" Hui-chu Yu investigates Katharine Evans's and Sarah Cheevers's account of their experiences as Quaker missionaries in Malta between 1658-1662. For Evans and Cheevers traveling was a mission ordained by god and thus their journey is less a trip for the gratification of exploration than spiritual and physical trials. With a purpose...

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...

Ahistory of the Methodist Overseas Mission in Arnhem Land has yet to be written. The resources for such a task are immensely rich, including archival sources and the writings of the missionaries themselves. While not possessing its own historian, as the Anglican missions do in the person of Reverend Keith Cole, 1 the Methodist Church produced a number of educated and passionate superintendents ...

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 ...