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Kaell, “Catholic Globalism in the United States”

Kaell, Hillary. 2019. “Catholic Globalism in the United States: Notes on Conversion and Culture.” Exchange. https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543X-12341531. Abstract: Inspired by Norget, Napolitano, and Mayblin’s …

August 20, 2019 ndca-admin

Hovland, “Beyond Mediation”

Hovland, Ingie. 2018. Beyond Mediation: An Anthropological Understanding of the Relationship Between Humans, Materiality, and Transcendence in Protestant Christianity. Journal of …

May 29, 2018 ndca-admin

Elazar, “Translating culture”

Elazar, Gideon.  2016. Translating culture: missionaries and linguists in contemporary Yunnan Province.  Asian Ethnicity.  Early online publication. Abstract: In an …

July 8, 2016 ndca-admin

Henn, “Kristapurāṇa: Translating the Name of God in Early Modern Goa”

Henn, Alexander. 2015. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 12 [Online Journal] Abstract: In the 16th and 17th centuries, Jesuit missionaries began to translate Christian doctrine …

November 3, 2015 ndca-admin

Bialecki, “The Third Wave and the Third World”

Bialecki, Jon. 2015. The Third Wave and the Third World: C. Peter Wagner, John Wimber, and the Pedagogy of Global …

July 2, 2015 ndca-admin

Morris, “Polynesians and Mormonism”

Morris, Paul.  2015. Polynesians and Mormonism: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the “Islands of the Sea.”  …

April 7, 2015 ndca-admin

Brison, “Fijian and Papua New Guinean Pentecostal Missionaries”

Brison, Karen J.  2012.  Fijian and Papua New Guinean Pentecostal Missionaries.  Ethnology 51(2). Abstract: Scholars argue that Christians from the …

January 16, 2015 ndca-admin

Hovland, “Mission Station Christianity”

Hovland, Ingie. 2013. Mission Station Christianity: Norwegian Missionaries in Colonial Natal and Zululand, Southern Africa 1850-1890. Boston: Brill.  Publisher’s Description: …

November 6, 2013 ndca-admin

Crossland, “Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture”

Crossland, Zoë.  2013.  “Signs of Mission: Material Semeiosis and Nineteenth-Century Tswana Architecture.” Signs and Society 1(1):79-113. Abstract: The missionary encounter between the …

August 27, 2013 ndca-admin

Montero, “The Contribution of Post-colonial Critique”

Montero, Paula.  2012.  The Contribution of Post-colonial Critique to an Anthropology of Missions.  Religion and Society 3(1): 115-129. Abstract:  When …

May 1, 2013 ndca-admin

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Banner image photo credits:
Sacred Heart - Naomi Haynes
Man painting, Dolls, Candles, Monastery Artabyunk - Hillary Kaell
Car - James Bielo

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