Missionaries

Author : Phil Klay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984880666

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Missionaries by Phil Klay Pdf

One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year "Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review “A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational insanity’ of global warfare, Missionaries brilliantly fills one of the largest gaps in contemporary literature.” —The Wall Street Journal The debut novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment A group of Colombian soldiers prepares to raid a drug lord's safe house on the Venezuelan border. They're watching him with an American-made drone, about to strike using military tactics taught to them by U.S. soldiers who honed their skills to lethal perfection in Iraq. In Missionaries, Phil Klay examines the globalization of violence through the interlocking stories of four characters and the conflicts that define their lives. For Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, and Lisette, a foreign correspondent, America's long post-9/11 wars in the Middle East exerted a terrible draw that neither is able to shake. Where can such a person go next? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with local government to keep predatory narco gangs at bay. Mason, now a liaison to the Colombian military, is ready for the good war, and Lisette is more than ready to cover it. Juan Pablo, a Colombian officer, must juggle managing the Americans' presence and navigating a viper's nest of factions bidding for power. Meanwhile, Abel, a lieutenant in a local militia, has lost almost everything in the seemingly endless carnage of his home province, where the lines between drug cartels, militias, and the state are semi-permeable. Drawing on six years of research in America and Colombia into the effects of the modern way of war on regular people, Klay has written a novel of extraordinary suspense infused with geopolitical sophistication and storytelling instincts that are second to none. Missionaries is a window not only into modern war, but into the individual lives that go on long after the drones have left the skies.

Author : Brandon Vaidyanathan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501736247

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Mercenaries and Missionaries by Brandon Vaidyanathan Pdf

Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global corporate professionals straddle conflicting moral orientations in the realms of work and religion. Seeking to place the spotlight on the role of religion in debates about the cultural consequences of capitalism, Vaidyanathan finds that an "apprehensive individualism" generated in global corporate workplaces is supported and sustained by a "therapeutic individualism" cultivated in evangelical-charismatic Catholicism. Mercenaries and Missionaries uncovers a symbiotic relationship between these individualisms and shows how this relationship unfolds in two global cities—Dubai, in non-democratic UAE, which holds what is considered the world's largest Catholic parish, and Bangalore, in democratic India, where the Catholic Church, though afflicted by ethnic and religious violence, runs many of the city's elite educational institutions. Vaidyanathan concludes that global corporations and religious communities create distinctive cultures, with normative models that powerfully orient people to those cultures—the Mercenary in cutthroat workplaces, and the Missionary in churches. As a result, global corporate professionals in rapidly developing cities negotiate starkly opposing moral commitments in the realms of work and religion, which in turn shapes their civic commitment to these cities.

Author : Philip O. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030512149

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American Missionaries in Iran during the 1960s and 1970s by Philip O. Hopkins Pdf

This work explores the interaction of American Protestant missionaries with Iranians during the 1960s and 1970s. It focuses on the missionary activities of four American Protestant groups: Presbyterians, Assemblies of God, International Missions, and Southern Baptists. It argues that American missionaries’ predisposition toward their own culture confused their message of the gospel and added to the negative perception of Christianity among Iranians. This bias was seen primarily in the American missionaries’ desire to modernize Iran through education and healthcare, and between the missionaries’ relationship with Iranian Christians. Iranian attitudes towards missionary involvement in these areas are investigated, as is the changing American missionary strategy from a traditional method where missionaries had the final say on most matters related to American and Iranian Christian interaction, to the beginnings of an indigenous system where a partnership developed between the missionary and the Iranian Christian.

Author : Leonard Van Tighem,Mary Eggermont-Molenaar,Victor Van Tighem
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781552381892

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Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants & Blackfoot by Leonard Van Tighem,Mary Eggermont-Molenaar,Victor Van Tighem Pdf

Using valuable primary source material, most of which is previously unpublished, and some of which has been translated from the Flemish-Dutch and French, editors Mary Eggermont-Molenaar and Paul Callens introduce the Van Tighem brothers to today's reader. Missionaries Among Miners, Migrants, and Blackfoot: The Vantighem Brothers Diaries, Alberta 1875-1917, contains the transcribed diaries of brothers Leonard and Victor Van Tighem, Belgian Catholic missionaries in Alberta between 1874 and 1917. Leonard, an Oblate priest, served in a number of parishes in southern Alberta, some of which he helped establish. Victor, a member of the Belgian Van Dale congregation, served on the Peigan and Blood reserves, in the southern part of the province. Their diaries are interspersed with letters from family and friends and letters and articles by contemporary bishops and fellow priests and lay-brothers. The Van Tighems' diaries offer a fascinating glimpse of life during Alberta's early settlement and growth -- the immigration boom, the development of Lethbridge and the Peigan reserve, railroads, the mining industry, and the impact of World War I are all part of the historical backdrop of the brothers' diaries.

Author : Cheryl Savageau,Diane Stortz
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830859290

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Parents of Missionaries by Cheryl Savageau,Diane Stortz Pdf

As a parent of a missionary you may feel that missing your child and your grandchildren signals a lack of faith. But proclaiming the gospel and making disciples was not meant to eclipse the loving family bonds God ordained. Whether you're the parent of a missionary recruit or a parent of an experienced missionary, you'll benefit from the authors' research and personal experience as they present a comprehensive plan for understanding missionary life, navigating the holidays, grandparenting long-distance and saying good-bye well. Combining a counselor's professional insight and a parent's personal journey, plus ideas and stories from dozens of missionaries and POMs, Parents of Missionaries is a valuable tool for missions mobilizers and educators as well as parents. The POM experience amounts to a journey through change, pain and adjustment. Wherever you are on that journey, this resource will encourage you and help you thrive and stay connected with your children and grandchildren serving cross-culturally. Not only can you survive as a parent of a missionary—you can thrive.

Author : Timothy P. Foran
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887555114

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Defining Métis by Timothy P. Foran Pdf

"Defining Métis" examines categories used in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Catholic missionaries to describe Indigenous people in what is now northwestern Saskatchewan. It argues that the construction and evolution of these categories reflected missionaries’changing interests and agendas. "Defining Métis" sheds light on the earliest phases of Catholic missionary work among Indigenous peoples in western and northern Canada. It examines various interrelated aspects of this work, including the beginnings of residential schooling, transportation and communications, and relations between the Church, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and the federal government. While focusing on the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and their central mission at Île-à-la-Crosse, this study illuminates broad processes that informed Catholic missionary perceptions and impelled their evolution over a fifty-three-year period. In particular, this study illuminates processes that shaped Oblate conceptions of sauvage and métis. It does this through a qualitative analysis of documents that were produced within the Oblates’ institutional apparatus – official correspondence, mission journals, registers, and published reports. Foran challenges the orthodox notion that Oblate commentators simply discovered and described a singular, empirically existing, and readily identifiable Métis population. Rather, he contends that Oblates played an important role in the conceptual production of les métis.

Author : Clayton M. Christensen
Publisher : Deseret Book
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : 1609073150

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The Power of Everyday Missionaries by Clayton M. Christensen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Baptists
ISBN : UIUC:30112109811528

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Baptist Missionary Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172106041740

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Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church by Methodist Episcopal Church. Missionary Society Pdf

Author : John Edward White
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532665394

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Factors Behind the Ukrainian Evangelical Missionary Surge from 1989 to 1999 by John Edward White Pdf

Throughout its history, the Soviet Union was one of the most closed places in the world to missionary work. As perestroika came in the late 1980s and the Soviet Union fell in 1991, a spiritual vacuum formed as massive numbers of people became interested in Christianity. An unprecedented freedom allowed evangelicals to engage in missionary work. Much has been written about foreign evangelical missionary work during this period, but virtually nothing has been written about nationals doing ministry. This book examines the remarkable surge in Ukrainian evangelical missionary work from 1989 to 1999. Both Baptists and Pentecostals engaged in a wave of missions, flowing from Ukraine to the end of the earth: Siberia. What were these pioneering missionaries like? What motivated them? What enabled them to do what had been forbidden for so long? What legacy did they leave for us today? What can we learn from their example for future missions? This book also looks at how a surge in missions takes place, analyzing the factors behind the Ukrainian evangelical missionary surge by looking at different models for change. Here we consider: what steps can we take to help bring about new missionary surges?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Missions
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6K6P

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Missionary Register by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Home Missionary Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Home missions
ISBN : WISC:89073140881

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Report of the American Home Missionary Society by American Home Missionary Society Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Home missions
ISBN : UOM:39015075071244

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The Home Missionary by Anonim Pdf

No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Missions
ISBN : CORNELL:31924057443107

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Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Missions, British
ISBN : OXFORD:555007321

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The Wesleyan Missionary Notices, Relating Principally to the Foreign Missions First Established by the Rev. John Wesley, M.A. the Rev. Dr. Coke and Others, and Now Carried on Under the Direction of the Methodist Conference by Anonim Pdf