Faith in Schools
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- Synopsis
- Her story about American missionaries takes part in two parts of the world, says Stambach (educational policy and anthropology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison), East Africa and the US, and involves religion, education, secularism, and politics. She argues that during the early 1990s, shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, the US government and the World Bank decided to conscript missionary efforts into furthering US interests by making them a branch of development. She discusses 150 years of mission work in the US, using anthropology for Christian witness, teaching English in Tanzania, planting church schools in Kenya, school-community partnerships in Uganda, and a new anthropological ethnography of religion and education. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780804773454
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780804768504, 9780804768511
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/16/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Education
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.