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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Grant Wacker
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From the early nineteenth century through the middle twentieth century, foreign and domestic missionaries ranked among the most conspicuous figures of American religious history. In many quarters they still do. “Don't apologize,” one academic quipped at a conference in India. “All Americans are missionaries.”

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Church History , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , December 2003 , pp. 699 - 702
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Copyright © American Society of Church History 2003

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References

1. Some of the ideas, phrases, quotations, and bibliographic data in this introduction are drawn from the volume and section introductions to Bays, Daniel H. and Wacker, Grant, editors, The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003)Google Scholar. The academic quoted was Arnold Rose, quoted in Hutchison, William R., Errand to the World: American Protestant Thought and Foreign Missions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 1.Google Scholar

2. Robert, Dana L., “From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions since World War II,” in Stout, Harry S. and Hart, D G., editors, New Directions in American Religious History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 362–93.Google Scholar

3. Hersey, John, The Call (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), 28.Google Scholar