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Protestants Abroad
David A. Hollinger
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America
Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists.
David A. Hollinger provides riveting portraits of such figures as Pearl Buck, John Hersey, and Life and Time publisher Henry Luce, former "mish kids" who strove through literature and journalism to convince white Americans of the humanity of other peoples. Hollinger describes how the U.S. government's need for citizens with language skills and direct experience in Asian societies catapulted dozens of missionary-connected individuals into prominent roles in intelligence and diplomacy. Meanwhile, Edwin Reischauer and other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. The missionary contingent advocated multiculturalism and anticolonialism, pushed their churches in ecumenical and social-activist directions, and joined with Jewish intellectuals to challenge traditional Protestant cultural hegemony and promote a pluralist vision of American life. Missionary cosmopolitans were the Anglo-Protestant counterparts of the New York Jewish intelligentsia of the same era.
Protestants Abroad reveals the crucial role that missionary-connected American Protestants played in the development of modern American liberalism, and how they helped other Americans reimagine their nation's place in the world.
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Congregational church, John Paton Davies, Jr., Red Star Over China, John Hersey, Zionism, Japan–United States relations, Confucius, Owen Lattimore, Frank Laubach, On China, Edgar Snow, Henry Luce, Peace Corps, World War II, Chinese Civil War, Rewi Alley, Walter Judd (politician), Religion, Great Society, Missionary (LDS Church), Sherwood Anderson, Unequal treaty, Paganism, Baptists, China Lobby, Career, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christianity, Agnes Smedley, God, Anti-imperialism, Karl Barth, Mennonite, Pearl S. Buck, Theology, United States Department of State, Warfare, John S. Service, Social Gospel, Methodism, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Karl Marx, Zhou Enlai, Missionary, World Council of Churches, Robert Lansing, Southern Baptist Convention, China Hands, On Religion, Cosmopolitanism, Orientalism, Liberation Struggle, Kuomintang, The Ugly American, Lillian Smith (author), Superiority (short story), Racism, Christian mission, Imperialism, Katherine Mayo, Chiang Kai-shek, Secularism, A Bell for Adano (novel), Margaret Landon, Anna and the King of Siam (novel), Martin Luther King, Jr., Alfred Kohlberg, Ho Chi Minh, Protestantism, Racism in the United States