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The economic rationale for the provision of technical/vocational education (TVE) in colonial Ghana: Implications for practice

open access: yesPerspectives in Education, 2023
The paper examines the economic rationale for the provision of technical/ vocational education (TVE) in colonial Ghana.  It further highlights some key lessons drawn from the study, particularly, in term of the Ghanaian contemporary search for a more ...
Philip Oti-Agyen
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Book Review: An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A review of An Encounter of Peripheries: Santals, Missionaries, and their Changing Worlds, 1867-1900 by Marine ...
Bauman, Chad
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Book Review: Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814-87 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A review of Missionaries, Rebellion and Proto-Nationalism: James Long of Bengal 1814-87 by Geoffrey A ...
Lipner, Julius
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Survey of audience reception in the Sistine Chapel: decoding the message of sacred art

open access: yesChurch, Communication and Culture, 2018
The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is home to the most famous frescoes in the world that also have a profound religious significance and unique history. This case study analyses a survey of audience reception (2017) in the Sistine Chapel.
Emanuela Edwards
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The History of Togoland Under the British Rule (1914‒1956) [PDF]

open access: yesУченые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук
The article is devoted to the history of British Togoland, in particular, the central part of the Volta region (southeast of modern Ghana). The time frame of the study covers the period from the First World War to the incorporation of the Volta region ...
Lapushkina Alina Olegovna
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La frontière : contrainte ou ressource pour l’individu ? Le « pari romantique » des pionniers de la Société des missions évangéliques de Paris, de « l’humanisation » à « l’humanitarisation » des Sotho

open access: yesLes Cahiers de Framespa, 2012
The paper suggests thinking about the imaginary, imagined and true border, from the case of protestant missionaries from XIXth century and Sotho of Southern Africa.
Laurence Espinosa
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The footprints of Three Latvian Female Missionaries in Colonial Contexts

open access: yesБогословські роздуми: Східноєвропейський журнал богословʼя, 2023
During the era of colonial domination of much of Africa and Asia, many female missionaries from Europe served in these parts of the world. They served as teachers, medical practitioners, and evangelists but were also often seen as supporters of ...
Kristina Ece
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Translating the Indigenous. Carl Strehlow’s Word for God in Central Australia

open access: yesChronotopos, 2023
The Lutheran missionary Carl Strehlow translated narratives of the Arrernte of Central Australia into German. In the first volume of his huge ethnographic study, published in 1907, he describes the Arrernte Altjira as a high god, arguing that the name ...
Anthony Pym
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Heterosexuell erotisierte Beziehungsgeflechte in der Mission

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2016
Heterosexual eroticising situations and relationships in the context of missions. This article contains some of the results of empirical research done on heterosexual eroticising relationships in which missionary women engage.
Martina Kessler, Christina Landman
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Multiple Buddhisms in Ladakh: Strategic Secularities and Missionaries Fighting Decline

open access: yesReligions, 2021
During fieldwork in Ladakh in July–August 2018, three authors from Asian studies, anthropology, and religious studies backgrounds researched “multiple Buddhisms” in Ladakh, India.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg   +2 more
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