RELIGIOUS EXPANSION OF TURKEY IN TATARSTAN IN THE POST-SOVIET PERIOD by R. R. Suleymanov

“…Islamic Jamaat of Turkey sent its missionaries to Tatarstan. This led to the fact that some Muslims of Tatarstan began to focus on Turkey and the spiritually obey Turkish sheikhs. …”
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Waaihoek se N.G. sendinggemeente in Bloemfontein: 1891-1903 by R. M. Britz

“…In 1895, the Waaihoek church, which was related to the (white) Dutch Reformed congregation of Bloemfontein, obtained a religious teacher, who was eventually ordained as missionary in 1897. Tension grew within the congregation because of the influx of black Basotho people who neither understood Dutch nor had the culture of the initial “Coloured” (brown) members. …”
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CHRISTOPANGANISM: A RELIGION IN SEARCH OF RELEVANCE OR A CONTEXTUALIZED CHRISTIANITY IN NIGERIA? by Amos Francis Dike

“…The study discovers that while the early missionaries left their converts battling with African traditional mythology. …”
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Social and Cultural Integration: A Discourse Analysis of Islamic Themes in the Basis Magazine, 1998–2000 by Rhoma Dwi Aria Yuliantri

“…This research aims to understand why Basis, with its Catholic missionary vision and spirit, embraced Islamic themes during the 1998–2000 period and to what extent these Islamic and Islamic-themed articles reflect the journal's mission of interreligious dialogue in response to the "cultural freedom" of the Reform Era. …”
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Song Melody and Speech Tone Conflict in Translated Yorùbá Christian Hymns by Tolulope Owoaje, Tunde Adegbola

“…In their effort to make early Yorùbá Christian converts sing Christian hymns in the church, European missionaries translated English hymns to Yoruba, and sang them to the original European hymn tunes. …”
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Poszanowanie wolności religijnej w prawodawstwie kościelnym by Dariusz Mazurkiewicz

“…Consequently, it also requires respect for religious freedom when administering sacraments and obliges bishops and missionaries to refrain from all forms of coercion when preaching the Gospel. …”
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Protéger et guérir : la mission du gouvernement et des associations d’aide aux détenues en Angleterre entre 1856 et 1914 by Alice Bonzom

“…The idealized views of womanhood, the prescriptive social roles and the contemporary fears for traditional values which shaped the female criminal system also fashioned the missionary work that surrounded the penal sphere. In a sense, lady visitors were missionaries upholding the values and projects of the Empire. …”
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Foreign Policy Niche of Small States: The Problem of Choice (The Case of Baltic States) by V. A. Smirnov

“…The following research inference is made: by means of conflict model which is being realized within external political niche ("gate-keeper" and "missionary" types) political elite of the Baltic states gain additional resources in the middle-term perspective. …”
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Wedding mirages: Salesian representations of the Shuar marriage¸1893-1925 by Rosana Posligua

“…This article uses a gender-based approach to study the different representations of Shuar marriage developed by Salesian missionaries. The study covers the 1893-1925 period, which witnessed the earliest arrival of the Salesian missionaries into de Gualaquiza-Mendez Apostolic Vicariate, in what is now the Morona-Santiago province in Ecuador. …”
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Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy by B.B. Senokoane

“…This understanding and perception enabled missionaries to interpret the Bible in such a way that it disadvantaged and oppressed the “converts”. …”
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The Survival of the Yorùbá Healing Systems in the Modern Age by Ilesanmi Akanmidu Paul

“…The introduction of western-style healthcare by missionaries—which became consolidated under colonial rule, from any point of view was attempted to stiffen the survival of the former. …”
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Some Customary Law Nuance on that Hagiography: Attempt of Interpretations by Marius Ščavinskas

“…But earlier mentioned motives for killing the missionaries don't allow giving prominence to sacral motives. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…During the colonial period, they became artefacts collected by Europeans, particularly missionaries. Their acquisition led to a break with their original context and a change in function, and the calabashes were reused for propaganda purposes, particularly to justify the missionaries’ actions in the field and demonstrate their effectiveness. …”
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Quviasukvik. The celebration of an Inuit winter feast in the central Arctic by Frédéric Laugrand, Jarich Oosten

“…Many old ideas and practices did not die as easily as missionaries or Inuit assumed, but returned in a new guise. …”
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Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective by T. Shingange

“… The Western missionaries and colonialists pushed a similar agenda of subjugating the receptor’s core aspects of life. …”
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REVISITING THE CONCEPT OF THE JAVANESE ISLAM: GENEALOGY, ACADEMIC REPRESENTATION, AND CULTURAL STRATEGY by Achmad Tohe

“…Based on selected literature sources, the results show that the syncretic Javanese Islamic concept formulated by missionaries and orientalists tends to be highly theological due to the Christian framework used. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“…Cut off from participation in divine will, the autonomous will of Protestant Christian missionaries became the basis for organizing the world of the 19th-century Sotho speakers. …”
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The Confession of King Gälawdewos (r. 1540–1559): A Sixteenth-Century Ethiopian Monophysite Document against Jesuit Proselytism by Solomon Gebreyes Beyene

“…In the first phase, from 1555 to 1603, the missionaries undertook to convert King Gälawdewos and his court in return for military support from Portugal but had to face opposition from his successor, Minas (r.1559–1563). …”
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Kebijakan Politik Pragmatis Strategis Maulana Hasanuddin Banten (1546-1570) terhadap Portugis by Mufti Ali

“…The intensive arrival of the Portuguese catholic missionaries to Banten to give spiritual guidance to their fellow citizens can be associated with the fact that many Portuguese stayed in Banten. …”
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Cultures of Display: The Mirror of Imperialism by John M. MacKenzie

“…Andrew Porter similarly argued that missionaries were essentially anti-imperial and should be absolved from any guilt surrounding the processes of empire. …”
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