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Christian Mass Movements In South India And Some Of The Critical Factors That Changed The Face Of Christianity In India, Philip Joseph Mathew

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

The main reason for Christian growth in India was not individual conversions but rather Christian mass movements (CMMs). Since the late 1700s, a series of independent CMMs among non-Christians and a mass reformation movement within the Suriani community have occurred in the southern end of India. These MMs culminated in a mass emancipation movement against caste-imposed segregation of Dalits in the late 1800s, an event of national significance. In the early 1900s, Pentecostalism evolved from these CMMs and transformed the religious landscape of Christianity in South India and later in India as a whole. The Thoma Christians were the early …

Buddhist Modernism In The Philippines: Emerging Localization Of Humanistic Buddhism, Aristotle C. Dy

Chinese Studies Department Faculty Publications

Mahayana Buddhism is well known for being successfully implanted in various cultures. Chinese Buddhism, considered one of the three great religions of China along with Confucianism and Taoism, is a classic example. From China, Buddhism traveled further and, in the twentieth century, developed a particular way of engaging the world. Humanistic Buddhism, a particular form of engaged Buddhism that grew out of twentieth-century Chinese Buddhism, has been present in the Philippines since the 1990s and signaled a new phase in the growth of Buddhism in the country. In particular, the Philippine initiators of Foguangshan and Ciji did not limit themselves …

Compassion In The Face Of Internment: The Story Of The Cunningham Family, Caitlin M. Rossiter

History: Student Scholarship & Creative Work

“Just one week ago today we arrived in one of the most ancient and picturesque cities of the world – Peking, North China,” wrote Brethren missionary Ellen Cunningham to her “dear American friends” in 1938. “And just a month ago today we bid farewell to dear old USA which no doubt will change in a good many ways before we set foot on her soil again.” Cunningham was right in thinking about the changes that would transform the United States before she and her husband, Lloyd, would return. What she did not anticipate was how sweeping the changes across China …

Historical Foundations And Enduring Fundamentals Of American Religious Freedom, John Witte Jr.

Faculty Articles

For all of their failures and shortcomings, the eighteenth-century founders did indeed begin on the right “path” toward a free society, and today, Americans enjoy a good deal of religious, civil, and political freedom as a consequence. American principles of religious freedom have had a profound influence around the globe, and they now figure prominently in a number of national constitutions and international human rights instruments issued by political and religious bodies.

To be sure, as Adams predicted, there has always been a “glorious uncertainty of the law” of religious liberty and a noble diversity of understandings of its details. …

"The Claims Of Religion Upon Medical Men": Protestant Christianity And Medicine In Nineteenth-Century America, Ronald James Gordon

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This is the first study to examine how pastors lost authority over bodily healing in the nineteenth century. I argue that clergymen adapted to the scientific and cultural developments of the post-Darwin era by encouraging a separation of bodily healing and spiritual healing that was unprecedented in Christianity. In 1840, ministers wielded much more authority than physicians, who still practiced a heroic medicine whose foundations predated Christ. Ministers insisted that doctors' value lay in their willingness to be proselytizing Christians. The doctor who wanted to reach the upper echelon of his profession had to save the souls of the wayward …

Evangelical Visitor - January, 1993 Vol. 106. No. 1., Glen A. Pierce

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. 106. No. 1.

Evangelical Visitor - September, 1985 Vol. 98. No. 9, Glen A. Pierce

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. 98. No. 9

Evangelical Visitor - January 25, 1981 Vol. Xciv. No. 2., Glen A. Pierce

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XCIV. No. 2.

Evangelical Visitor - September 25, 1978 Vol. Xci. No. 18., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XCI. No. 18.

Evangelical Visitor - July 25, 1978 Vol. Xci. No. 14., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XCI. No. 14.

Evangelical Visitor - June 10, 1977 Vol. Xc. No. 11., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. XC. No. 11.

Evangelical Visitor - April 10, 1976 Supplement On Missions, J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Evangelical Visitor Supplement on Missions work included in the April 10, 1976 edition of the Evangelical Visitor publication.

Evangelical Visitor - April 10, 1976 Vol. Lxxxix. No. 7., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXIX. No. 7.

1976 Handbook Of Missions, Brethren In Christ Church

Handbook of Missions

A calling to fulfill. 1976 yearbook. Brethren in Christ Missions. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Stevensville, Ontario.

Evangelical Visitor - April 25, 1975 Vol. Lxxxviii. No. 8., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXVIII. No. 8.

Evangelical Visitor - March 25, 1974 Vol. Lxxxvii. No. 6., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXVII. No. 6.

Evangelical Visitor - September 10, 1973 Vol. Lxxxvi. No. 17., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXVI. No. 17.

Evangelical Visitor - May 25, 1972 Vol. Lxxxv. No. 10., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXV. No. 10.

Evangelical Visitor - April 25, 1972 Vol. Lxxxv. No. 8., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXV. No. 8.

Evangelical Visitor - June 25, 1971 Vol. Lxxxiv. No. 12., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXIV. No. 12.

Evangelical Visitor - June 02, 1969 Vol. Lxxxii. No. 11., John E. Zercher

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXXII. No. 11.

Evangelical Visitor - January 02, 1967 Vol. Lxxx. No. 1., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXX. No. 1.

Southern Baptist Missions In China 1945-1951, Garnett Lee White

Master's Theses

This thesis developed from a seminar paper on the South China Mission of the Southern Baptist Convention, 1945-1951, prepared for Dr. R. Barry Westin in the tall of 1965. Though the scope of this present study includes Southern Baptist Missions in all of China during the same period, its purpose remains the same. That purpose is to present the course of the evangelical outreach or this large Protestant denomination, and the progress made in establishing an indigenous Christian movement in China before the Communists forced the withdrawal of all missionary personnel.

Evangelical Visitor - August 29, 1966 Vol. Lxxix. No. 18., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXIX. No. 18.

Evangelical Visitor - June 21, 1965 Vol. Lxxviii. No. 13., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXVIII. No. 13.

1965 Handbook Of Missions, Brethren In Christ Church

Handbook of Missions

Handbook of Missions. Forty-eighth annual edition. Brethren in Christ Church, 1965.

Evangelical Visitor - January 21, 1963 Vol. Lxxvi. No. 2., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXVI. No. 2.

Evangelical Visitor - December 10, 1962 Vol. Lxxv. No. 25., J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXV. No. 25.

"Look On The Fields" - January 26, 1959 Supplement On Missions, J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Evangelical Visitor bi-annual Supplement on Missions work included in the January 26, 1959 edition of the Evangelical Visitor publication. Titled "Look on the Fields".

Evangelical Visitor - January 26, 1959 Vol. Lxxii. No. 2, J.N. Hostetter

Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999)

Vol. LXXII. No. 2