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Global Mission Statistics and Religious Demography

2022
Abstract Cross-cultural missionaries have always produced what would now be called “social science” research, including statistics of many kinds. The production of such material was always a part of the missionary enterprise and made important contributions to the contemporary social scientific study of religion.
Gina A. Zurlo, Todd M. Johnson
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Christian Mission and Religious Studies

2022
Abstract Christian mission and religious studies share an ambiguous relationship. Simultaneously, polemical discourse and constructive production have characterized the encounter between Christian mission and religious studies. Two major strands undergird the debate.
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The Religious Mission of Sorrow

2005
This chapter examines sorrow and the whole burden of human tribulation as a source of religious insight. The insight of which sorrow is the source is an insight that tends to awaken within a new view of what the spiritual realm is. This view is not in the least what some recent writers have blindly proclaimed it to be—a philosopher's artificial ...
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Communication and religious mission problems

Islamic Journal of Communication and Public Discourse
The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze communication problems faced in religious missions, as well as to formulate recommendations to improve the effectiveness of communication in this context. This research also aims to explore how a more inclusive and adaptive communication approach can help in bridging cultural differences and reducing
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Religious Foundations for Global Health Missions

2019
The injunction to visit and care for the sick can be found in the sacred texts and constant tradition of the major monotheistic religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam). Indeed, many missioners will cite faith as one reason for participating in such missions.
Mary Katharine Deeley   +1 more
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Anglican Religious Societies, Organizations, and Missions

2017
This chapter provides the first critical survey of those societies that worked under the rubric of the Church of England over the course of its ‘long eighteenth century’. Transcending a scholarly focus on the voluntary quality of such groups and challenging more general assumptions about the supposedly areligious nature of ‘enlightened’ sociability and
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