TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hollinger,David A.
TI  - Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America 
SN  - 9780691192789
U1  - 266/.02373 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Missions, American--History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A Book Of
KW  - Adviser
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Americans
KW  - Anti-imperialism
KW  - Arabs
KW  - Area studies
KW  - Baptists
KW  - British Empire
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Career
KW  - Chiang Kai-shek
KW  - China Hands
KW  - China
KW  - China–United States relations
KW  - Christian mission
KW  - Christianity in China
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church World Service
KW  - Colonial empire
KW  - Colonialism
KW  - Congregational church
KW  - Cosmopolitanism
KW  - Cultural imperialism
KW  - E. Stanley Jones
KW  - Ecumenism
KW  - Edgar Snow
KW  - Filipinos
KW  - Foreign Service Officer
KW  - Foreign policy of the United States
KW  - Foreign policy
KW  - Frank Laubach
KW  - Furlough
KW  - Harold Isaacs
KW  - Harvard University
KW  - Henry Luce
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Institute of Pacific Relations
KW  - J. (newspaper)
KW  - James C. Thomson, Jr
KW  - Jews
KW  - John F. Kennedy
KW  - John Foster Dulles
KW  - John Hersey
KW  - John K. Fairbank
KW  - John Leighton Stuart
KW  - John S. Service
KW  - Kenneth Scott Latourette
KW  - Kuomintang
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Lucian Pye
KW  - Lutheranism
KW  - Mao Zedong
KW  - Margaret Landon
KW  - Mennonite
KW  - Methodism
KW  - Missionary (LDS Church)
KW  - Missionary
KW  - National Council of Churches
KW  - Nationalist government
KW  - Office of Strategic Services
KW  - On China
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Owen Lattimore
KW  - Paganism
KW  - Peace Corps
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Prejudice
KW  - Presbyterianism
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Racism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Social Gospel
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Student Volunteer Movement
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Thailand
KW  - The Christian Century
KW  - The New York Times
KW  - Theology
KW  - United States Department of State
KW  - W. E. B. Du Bois
KW  - Walter Judd (politician)
KW  - White supremacy
KW  - Whittaker Chambers
KW  - William Ernest Hocking
KW  - World Council of Churches
KW  - World War II
KW  - World history
KW  - Writing
KW  - Yale Divinity School
KW  - Yale University
KW  - Zionism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Protestant Boomerang --; Chapter 2. To Make the Crooked Straight: Henry Luce, Pearl Buck, and John Hersey --; Chapter 3. To Save the Plan: Can Missions Be Revised? --; Chapter 4. The Protestant International and the Political Mobilization of Churches --; Chapter 5. Anticolonialism vs. Zionism --; Chapter 6. Who Is My Brother? The White Peril and the Japanese --; Chapter 7. Telling the Truth about the Two Chinas --; Chapter 8. Creating America’s Thailand in Diplomacy and Fiction --; Chapter 9. Against Orientalism: Universities and Modern Asia --; Chapter 10. Toward the Peace Corps: Post- Missionary Service Abroad --; Chapter 11. Of One Blood: Joining the Civil Rights Struggle at Home --; Chapter 12. Conclusion: Cain’s Answer --; Notes --; Index --; A note on the type; restricted access
N2  - They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists.David A. Hollinger provides riveting portraits of such figures as Pearl Buck, John Hersey, and Life and Time publisher Henry Luce, former "mish kids" who strove through literature and journalism to convince white Americans of the humanity of other peoples. Hollinger describes how the U.S. government's need for citizens with language skills and direct experience in Asian societies catapulted dozens of missionary-connected individuals into prominent roles in intelligence and diplomacy. Meanwhile, Edwin Reischauer and other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. The missionary contingent advocated multiculturalism and anticolonialism, pushed their churches in ecumenical and social-activist directions, and joined with Jewish intellectuals to challenge traditional Protestant cultural hegemony and promote a pluralist vision of American life. Missionary cosmopolitans were the Anglo-Protestant counterparts of the New York Jewish intelligentsia of the same era.Protestants Abroad reveals the crucial role that missionary-connected American Protestants played in the development of modern American liberalism, and how they helped other Americans reimagine their nation's place in the world
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