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Learning First, Technology Second: Enhancing Missionary Training Through Technology [PDF]
, 2010 This article describes how the missions agency EFCA ReachGlobal uses the open source online learning platform Moodle to train missionaries and to fulfill its goal to become a learning organization.
Manges, Ernest, Morgenstern, Mark
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Abstract Peer influence in adolescence and early adulthood is critical to the formation of beliefs about appropriate behaviour for each gender. Complicating matters, recent studies suggest that men overestimate peer support for inequitable gender norms. Combined with social conformity, this susceptibility to ‘norm misperception’ may represent a barrier
Alexander M. Ishungisa +5 more
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CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY AND PEACE IN AFRICA
International Studies JournalDespite the long-standing presence of Christian missions and their notable contributions to healthcare, social reforms, and education, Africa continues to experience structural injustice, sustained violations, and pervasive violence of human dignity.
EMMANUEL ACTOR OYEWOLE, PhD
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, 2015 Excerpt: The first Europeans to inhabit what is now Canada came from Norse countries about 1000 AD to spend at least two winters at L’Anse aux Meadows, on the northwestern tip of Newfoundland.
Badley, Ken
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Jesuit Schools and Missions in the Orient [PDF]
, 2012 On 27th February 1540, the Papal Bull Regimini Militantis Eclesiae estabilished the oficial institution of The Society of Jesus, centred on Ignacio de Layola.
Manso, Maria de Deus, Seabra, Leonor
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The Shuar of Ecuadorian Amazonia once pursued eminence through warfare and vision quests. While vision quests have been retained, today – settled in villages – they seek eminence through economic success and political leadership. This article examines an apparent paradox: whilst envy suspicions pervade public life, they legitimize rather than level ...
Natalia Buitron, Grégory Deshoullière
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Historical and Ethnographical Publications in the Vernaculars of Colonial Zambia: Missionary Contribution to the 'Creation of Tribalism' [PDF]
, 2003 This essay examines the chronology and attributes of literate ethno-history in Northern Rhodesia. While the earliest published authors were invariably members of missionary societies whose evangelical policies were predisposed towards the ...
Macola, Giacomo
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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Prospects of addressing the challenges of gender inequalities in Christian missions
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological StudiesGender inequality has been pervasive in many aspects of society, including religious institutions. Christian missions often reinforce patriarchal structures that limit the participation of women in leadership and ministry roles.
Akinyemi O. Alawode
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John R. Mott and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.: Dimensions of an Unlikely Friendship
, 2019 This research report is based on research performed at the Rockefeller Archive Center during January 2019. The report explores several dimensions to the friendship and professional relationship of Dr. John R. Mott and John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Hartley, Benjamin
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