Protestant Missionaries as Change Agents in East Africa

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" Protestant Missionaries as Change Agents in East Africa "
Michael J. Horan, Kenyon N. Griffin

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1070870
Doc. No	:	LA114499
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852186X00233‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Kenyon N. Griffin
	:	Michael J. Horan
Title & Author	:	Protestant Missionaries as Change Agents in East Africa [Article]\ Michael J. Horan, Kenyon N. Griffin
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Date	:	1986
Volume/ Issue Number	:	21/3-4
Page No	:	147–158
Abstract	:	This paper examines the relationship between religious beliefs and the role orientations of a sample of Protestant missionaries in East Africa. The findings challenge the theoretical linkages developed by Glock and his associates that doctrinal commitment of the highly orthodox Christians leads them to adopt an other-worldly, miraculous outlook and an antipathy toward this-worldly affairs. On a number of indicators, the respondents were typically aware of and interested in social and political affairs-just the converse of an antipathetic person who sees religious salvation as the only solution to social ills. From this analysis it seems evident that the missionaries embraced the sacred and the secular worlds in a rather harmonious fashion rather than the dichotomized view suggested theoretically.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	General
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852186X00233‬