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Alvarsson, Jan-Åke, ed.
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The missionary process $c / Jan-Åke Alvarsson, editor

Uppsala, Sweden : Studia Missionalia Svecana, 2005.

214 p. ; 24 cm.

'This volume is the result of a cross-disciplinary research project, Missions in an anthropological perspective, and more precisely from the final research conference, held at Uppasala University in 2003'--T.p. verso./ Includes bibliographical references.

Studia missionalia Svecana ; 99

Contents: The missionary process: an introduction / Jan-Åke Alvarsson -- The missionary vocation and the sending-out-ritual: a case study of the structure and content of the missionary services and sending-out-rituals in the Tranås Pentecostal congregation 1983-1995 / Jan-Åke Alvarsson -- 'Rousing of the bride': working on the barriers of class, gender, education and ethnicity: a case study from the mission to China in the 1890s / Anna Maria Claesson --

A woman missionary in the field: identity, loyalties, and gender roles / Birgitta Meurling -- Transformations of the missionary mandate / Elmer S. Miller -- Regimes of truth: Shuar and missionary versions of religion / Marie Perruchon -- Problems of transition: handing over of missionary work to nationals / Anders Ruuth -- The spiritual fiesta: religious celebration and ritual time among Quechua Pentecostals / Emil Erdtman -- The ethnified gospel--The Christian message as presented by Weenhayek preachers / Jan-Åke Alvarsson.

Missions, Swedish--Theory.
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Pentecostal churches--Sweden.
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08/14/2008