Essays about: "missionary"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the word missionary.

1. 1. "Unbroken Darkness” : Christian Missionary Conceptions of Blindness in Early 20th Century Korea

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för koreanska

   Author : Tintin Appelgren; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to explore Christian missionary conceptions of blindness in early 20thcentury Korea. This period of history is characterized by drastic changes to Koreansociety due to an increase in external influences on the peninsula, changes which alsoaffected the social position and perception of blind people. READ MORE

3. 2. Salkinson’s Pursuit of Bringing the New Testament into the Treasure Houseof Hebrew Literature : The controversy surrounding a Haskalah Hebrew translation of the New Testament

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Semitiska språk: Arabiska, Arameiska/Syriska, Etiopiska, Hebreiska

   Author : Herta Maria Dixon; [2023]
   Keywords : Haskalah Hebrew; NT translations; Meliṣah; Jewish;

   Abstract : This study deals with the surprising commissioning of a new translation into Hebrew of the New Testament only months after the prestigious translation by the celebrated German Hebraist Prof. Franz Delitzsch had been published, in 1877. READ MORE

4. 3. Texts and Paratexts in a Colonial Context. Krupabai Satthianadhan's English Novels 'Saguna' and 'Kamala'

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Karin Edgardh; [2020-01-15]
   Keywords : India; Krupabai Satthianadhan; Saguna; Kamala; Gérard Genette; Autobiography; Conversion; Colonial literature;

   Abstract : The anglophone Indian author Krupabai Satthianadhan (1862-1894) was a second-generation Christian convert and a member of the Christian Tamil family in colonial Madras. Knowledge of English was still a high-caste male privilege when Satthianadhan published reformist articles on female education. Her two novels, the autobiographical Saguna. READ MORE

5. 4. Actor or ally? Exploring Sweden’s involvement in Turkish gender politics through the Swedish Consulate General in Istanbul

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Maja Fregert Tolgraven; [2020]
   Keywords : gender equality; feminist foreign policy; civil society; Turkey; EU accession; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this project is to study the implementation of Sweden’s feminist foreign policy through its gender equality enchancing foreign aid to Turkish civil society, managed by The Swedish Consulate General in Istanbul. Through a multi-methods study based on document analysis of project grant cases in 2019, and in-depth interviews with Consulate staff and representatives from partner organizations, the study maps a web of different actors and processes of change in Turkish gender politics: states, civil society, segments of the public and the international community. READ MORE

6. 5. The Faith and Actions of Greta Andrén, Missionary to the Jews of Vienna, 1938-1941

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kyrko- och missionsstudier

   Author : Samuel Wenell; [2020]
   Keywords : Greta Andrén; Svenska Israelsmissionen; Microhistory; Mission History; Vienna; Holocaust; Deaconry; Carlo Ginzburg;

   Abstract : In this Master’s thesis, I conduct a micro-historical study of deaconess and missionary Greta Andrén (1909-1971) and her work for Svenska Israelsmissionen, the Swedish Israel Mission, in Vienna during the National Socialist occupation. By examining letters as well as select publications, I try to uncover her motives and how she found meaning in her work, and how this could be seen in relation to the origins of the Mission in the Swedish Low Church awakening and certain apocalypticviews on the Jews. READ MORE