Missions in Liberia and race relations in the United States / John Saillant -- The serpentine trail : Haitian missions and the construction of African-American religious identity / Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp -- Revolution at home and abroad : radical implications of the Protestant call to missions / Mark Hanley -- From the native ministry to the talented tenth : the foreign missionary origins of white support for Black colleges / Jay Riley Case -- Organizing for missions : a Methodist case study / Russell E. Richey -- Mapping Presbyterian missionary identity in the church at home and abroad / Anne Blue Wills -- The scientific study of missions : textbooks of the central committee on the united study of foreign missions / Nancy A. Hardesty -- Open-winged piety : reflex influence and the woman's missionary society of the Methodist Church in Canada / Marilyn F. Whiteley -- Hotbed of missions : the China inland mission, Toronto Bible College, and the faith missions Bible school connection / Alvyn Austin -- From India's coral strand : Pandita Ramabai and U.S. support for foreign missions / Edith L. Blumhofer -- The general and the gringo / William L. Svelmoe -- The waning of the missionary impulse : the case of Pearl S. Buck / Grant Wacker -- To save "free Vietnam" and lose our souls : the missionary impulse, voluntary agencies, and Protestant dissent against the war / Scott Flipse -- In the modern world, but not of it : the "auca martyrs," evangelicalism, and postwar American culture / Kathryn Long -- Evangelists of destruction : missions to native Americans in recent film / Jay S.F. Blossom.

Contents: Mission in the colonial period, 1492-1775 -- Mission within the United States, 1820-1920 -- Missions overseas, 1820-93 -- The Spanish-American War, the Americanist period, and a national focus for missions overseas, 1898-1919 -- "America's hour" for missions overseas, 1918-35 -- "Light to the darkness": mission to Asia, 1918-53 -- Struggle for world order, 1946-59 -- From "rehabilitation" to "development": Latin America, 1959-71 -- A time for reassessment: liberation theology and the "option for the poor," 1965-80 -- U.S. Catholic mission history: themes and threads, 1850-1980.

From the publisher: "This first general history of American Catholic mission explores not only its institutions but its human and religious aspects as well. It shows how the church in the United States not only sent thousands of men and women overseas but evangelized internally and incorporated millions of immigrants over the course of two centuries. Angelyn Dries offers a thoroughly researched and nuanced view of this history, and its profound influence on the emergence of a distinctive American Catholic identity."
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