Sökning: "missionary activity"
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1. Essays on Gender, Development and Political Economy
Sammanfattning : The Long-Run Impact of Protestant Missionary Activity on Female Labour-Force ParticipationResearch has shown that missionary activity, in general, and Protestant missionary activity, in particular, has had a long-lasting positive effect on literacy, education and democratic values. In this chapter, I analyse the differential effect of early 20th century Protestant and Catholic missionary activity in three former British colonies - Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - on female labour-force participation with a particular focus on formal-sector employment. LÄS MER
2. An African area in change. Belingwe 1894-1946 : A study of colonialism, missionary activity and African response in Southern Rhodesia
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3. Mellan mission och dialog. Kristna trossamfund och mötet med det mångreligiösa Sverige
Sammanfattning : As a consequence of immigration and increasing globalisation, the new multifaith and multicultural situation in Swedish society has created new challenges and pastoral ministries for the Christian Protestant churches and denominations in Sweden. Encounters with people of other faiths and increasing religious pluralism has created a new need for reflection about the churches identity, self-understanding and future mission. LÄS MER
4. Converging World Views : The European Expansion and Early-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Swedish Contacts
Sammanfattning : The nineteenth-century colonial project transformed conceptions of the globe in ways that reflect the increase in European power over the rest of the world. This study investigates a rather neglected aspect of this process: the development of new images of the world within Europe, and specifically in Britain and Sweden, during the first half of the century. LÄS MER
5. Musiklärartyper : en typologisk studie av musiklärare vid kommunal musikskola
Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to establish a typology for instrumental music teachers at Swedish municipal music schools, and to describe different types, generated from questionnaire-answers, regarding how their attitudes and valuations in matters concerning democracy in broad sense are reflected in their pedagogical activity. I address the following concrete questions. LÄS MER