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The ‘Three Crosses’ of Mission Work: Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Angola, 1880-1930

open access: yesJournal of Religion in Africa, 2010
AbstractIn 1930 the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) commemorated fifty years of mission work in central Angola with a celebration that sought to unite thousands of Umbundu Christians into a community. Rituals such as the singing of hymns, daily church services, and bold performances of religious music by the 540-voice ...
Jeremy Ball
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Africans, Cherokees, and the ABCFM Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story of Redemption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
My dissertation, ?Africans, Cherokees, and the ABCFM Missionaries in the Nineteenth Century: An Unusual Story of Redemption,? assesses the experience of American missionaries in the Cherokee nation and in Western Africa during the nineteenth century.
Ouattara, Gnimbin Albert
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“We are writing this letter seeking your help”: Dakotas, ABCFM Missionaries, and Their Uses of Literacy, 1863–1866

Western Historical Quarterly, 2016
At the age of twenty-three, Mr. Uses a Cane was imprisoned at Camp Kearney, in Davenport, Iowa, for his alleged role in the Dakota War of 1862. At Camp Kearney, missionaries affiliated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), as well as camp elders, taught him to read and write in the Dakota language.
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Orientalism and Christian Missions: Knowledge Production and Power Relations in ABCFM Activities in Nineteenth-Century Greater Syria

open access: yesMiddle Eastern Culture & Religion Issues
This article examines the missionary activities of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Greater Syria during the nineteenth century through a postcolonial perspective.
M. Kharis Majid   +2 more
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The Women of the ABCFM Oregon Mission and the Conflicted Language of Calvinism

Church History, 1995
Among the books Oregon missionaries Elkanah and Mary Walker kept in their mission home at Tshimakain was a Bible in which was written a quotation attributed to Martin Luther: “Men are never more unfit for the sacrament, than when they think themselves most fit—and never more fit and prepared for duty than when most humbld ‘sic’ and ashamed in a sense ...
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