| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Beginnings; The Moral Career, the Stranger, and the Call; Roots of Set-Apartness and Mission in American Evangelical History; The World Radio Missionary Fellowship in Ecuador; Plan of the Book; 2. Themes in the Early Lives of Missionaries; A Background Sketch; The Shape of Things Set Apart: Child Missionaries; Sarah; Karen; Keith; Maxine; Marie; Don; Ralph; Walter; Jean; Testimonies of Conversion; Self, Other, and God: Ambivalence in the Formation of a Spiritual Identity; Sharon; Yvonne; Jack; Rob; Death and Resurrection in the Moral Career; Margaret; Dan; Jenny; Anne |
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3. The Missionary CallThe Call, Then and Now; Sociological Considerations; Divine Calling as a Biblical Ideal; The Call and the Missionary Legacy; Patterns of Calling among HCJB Missionaries; The Call as Transformation: Preparation and Passage; 4. Living Out the Call on the Mission Field; Ideals of Redemption and the Redemption of Ideals; The Work of Ideology in Discourse among Insiders; Audience and Identity in the Moral Career; The First Audience: God and the Other-Worldly Self; The Second Audience: the Missionary Community; The Third Audience: Evangelicals at Home |
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The Fourth Audience: Targets of MissionThe Sacrifice of Sacrifice; 5. Missionary Strangerhood and American Evangelical Identity; Meaning, Belonging, and Identity: A Survey; Missionaries Today: Remnants or Representatives of Evangelical America?; Missionaries and the Cultural Tensions of American Evangelicalism; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
Drawing on the personal histories of one hundred evangelical missionaries in Ecuador, Echoes of the Call explores the lives of missionaries as sociological ""strangers."" In a study as compelling as it is insightful, Jeffrey Swanson illustrates how missionaries are distanced, not only from theirculture and homeland, but also from their own era. The work begins with Swanson's interpretation of how his own experience as a child of missionaries shaped the viewpoint of estrangement from which the book is written. Swanson renders the formation of a missionary identity as the rhetorical composition |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Missions, American -- Ecuador
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Protestant churches -- Missions -- Ecuador
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Evangelistic work -- Ecuador
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Evangelistic work.
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Missions, American.
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Protestant churches -- Missions.
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Ecuador -- Church history
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Ecuador.
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Church history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195361766 |
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0195361768 |
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