Annual report

1815-18 printed at Philadelphia. Other slight variations in imprint.

Missionary work in connection with the Society of Friends : an address /

Cover title: Friends' missions.

Memoir of Rev. Levi Parsons : first missionary to Palestine from the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

Destiny and will, religion and politics: Jesus Society and Enlightenment in the posthumous Malabar Rites controversy

The first presentation of Antoine-Marin Le Mierre`s tragedy Malabar Widow, or the Empire of Customs, took place in 1770. It was based on the famous controversy over the Malabar (south west India) Rites. The object of the controversy was the Jesuit project in India, which started in the beginning of XVII century and was stopped by the Pope Benedict XIV, with the Apostolic Constitution Omnium Sollicitudinum. The papal condemnation of the rites closed a long process which shows the progressive loss of power of the Jesuit Company in the Age of Enlightenment, which will be definitive in 1773, with the suppression of the Company. In Le Mierre`s tragedy, we find the judgment of Malabar rites according to the rationalist ideas of the Enlightenment, with some typical topoi of the philosophes`s cultural perspective. At the same time, the enlightened disputation reproduces the Jesuit internal debate about India itself. Starting from a religious universal perspective of the different strategies of Christianization in India, or in the entire East, the missionary controversy had been about the religious or political interpretation of local signs. Briefly, this polemic would turn into the controversy on the rites. The criticism to the Jesuitical strategy of mission, in XVII and XVIII centuries, would start from here. The enormous number of documents on this issue became a powerful instrument in the battle against the Jesuits, in the XVIII century. On the base of the missionary disputation, the Enlightenment constructs the proposal of a new political and humanistic universal perspective. According to this, eventuality, the religion becomes just a privileged instrument to realize this operation.

Missionary children: The French Holy Childhood Association in European context, 1843-c.1914

In the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of children in Europe and beyond were organized into battalions of fundraisers for overseas missions. By the end of the century these juvenile missionary organizations had become a global movement, generating millions of pounds in revenue each year. While the transnational nature of the children’s missions and publications has been well-documented by historians, the focus has tended to be on the connections that were established by encounters between the young western donors, missionaries overseas and the non-western ‘other’ constructed by their work. A full exploration of the European political, social and cultural concerns that produced the juvenile missionaries movement and the trans-European networks that sustained it are currently missing from historical accounts of the phenomenon. This article looks at the largest of these organizations, the Catholic mission for children, the French Holy Childhood Association (L’Œuvre de la sainte enfance), to understand how the principles this mission sought to impose abroad were above all an expression of anxieties at home about the role of religion in the family, childhood and in civil society as western polities were modernizing and secularizing in the nineteenth century.

New Judea : Jewish life in modern Palestine and Egypt

by Benjamin L. Gordon

Descriptive and classified missionary centenary catalogue of current Christian literature : 1907 continuing that of 1901 (Wen-li and Mandarin) /

"A continuation of the labors of Mr. Alexander Kenmure ... and of the still earlier work of Dr. Alexander Wylie."--Pref.

Seventeen years in the Yoruba country : memorials of Anna Hinderer, wife of the Rev. David Hinderer, C.M.S. missionary in Western Africa /

Mode of access: Internet.

The triumph of the missionary motive /

The missionary motive fundamental in Christianity, by F.L. Anderson.--The missionary motive in the world war, by J. H. Mason.--Some contributions of Christian missions in war-time, by J. H. Franklin.--The social application of the missionary motive at home, by J. O. Nixon.--Ought the United States to be a missionary nation? by E. D. Burton.--The missionary motive, its appeal to the youth of our day, by P. H. J. Lerrigo.

The Jaulân. Surveyed for the German society for the exploration of the Holy Land,

Issued with the Quarterly statement of the Palestine exploration fund, for Jan.-Apr., 1888.

Grace illustrated, or, A bouquet from our missionary garden /

Mode of access: Internet.

A memoir of the Rev. Henry Watson Fox ... missionary to the Teloogoo people, South India /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Baptist missionary magazine.

Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.