Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (874 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071DVXCJS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 559 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hollinger is the Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History and Science, Jews, and Secular Culture: Studies in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Intellectual History (both Princeton). . David A
He also shows how Edwin Reischauer and other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. Missionary experience made many of these Americans critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, tens of thousands of American Protestant missionaries were stationed throughout the non-European world. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of
intellectual history. Hollinger explores how this multidimensional endeavor grappled with human difference and vexing political conflicts abroad and at home, and illuminates how its principals navigated the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them,’ the spiritual and the secular, the universal and the particular."--Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time"Protestants Abroad is one of those rare books that slices American society in a way that hardly anyone--certainly no one of Hollinger’