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Turning “Bad Jews Into Worse Christians”: Hermann Adler And The London Society For Promoting Christianity Amongst The Jews, Robert Ellison

Robert Ellison

This paper explores how sermons contributed to Jewish-Christian relations in Victorian England. I begin with a rhetorical analysis of sermons preached on behalf of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, the largest and best known missionary organization of its kind. I then examine a collection of sermons in which Hermann Adler, then rabbi of London’s Bayswater Synagogue and later Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, pushes back against their efforts, offering the “true explanations” of passages which, in his view, had been improperly employed by Christian preachers. Finally, I trace a kind of “feedback loop” in which …

Words Taken For Wonders: Conversion And Religious Authority Among The Dalits Of Colonial Chhattisgarh, Chad M. Bauman

Chad M. Bauman

Archaeology On The Edge Of Empire, Rubén Mendoza, James C. Moore, Yoni Espinoza Hernandez

Rubén Mendoza

This exhibition catalog was published as part of a CSU Monterey Bay Archaeology Program Special Exhibition designed to highlight some of the many contributions and discoveries made by the student project teams since 1995.

Editors' Notes, Stuart Love, D'Esta Love, Dyron Daughrity

Dyron Daughrity

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Christianity With Chinese Characteristics: The Origins And Evolution Of Adventist Mission In A Chinese Province, Trevor O'Reggio, Jomo R. Smith

Trevor O'Reggio

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[Book Review Of] Parochialism, Pluralism, And Contextualization: Challenges To Adventist Mission In Europe (19th – 21st Centuries), Edited By David J. B. Trim And Daniel Heinz, Denis Kaiser

Denis Kaiser

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Utopia In The Midst Of Oppression? A Reconsideration Of Guaraní/Jesuit Communities In Seventeenth And Eighteenth Century Paraguay, Thomas W. O'Brien

Thomas W O'Brien

This essay is an examination of the 17th–18th century Guaraní/Jesuit communities in Paraguay, which were exalted as utopias by countless witnesses. These authors have stressed the long periods of peaceful coexistence, the rich and fruitful syncretistic melding cultures, the successful and bountiful economic life, and the relative justice. Nevertheless, controversy has always marked these communities because many believe that the Jesuit/Guaraní missions are best understood as integral to the larger oppressive imposition of European polity and culture. These authors stress evidence of condescending paternalism, structural inequality, restricted freedom of choice, and the erosion of a pristine Guaraní culture. This essay …

Syncretism, Erich Baumgartner

Erich Baumgartner

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