Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781498504867
ISBN-13 : 1498504868
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity by : John S. Benson

Download or read book Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity written by John S. Benson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania. Based on over ninety interviews and John Benson’s extensive knowledge of cultural geography, he compares the lives of the missionary generation who grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries to those of their children who grew up in Africa but settled in the United States as adults. Benson blends his personal experiences as a child of missionaries in Tanzania to tell the story of both generations. Missionary Families is centered on the themes of connection to place and religious development and will appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies and religion.


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