Product Description: This volume is the first to examine at length and in detail the impact of the missionary experience on American cultural, political, and religious history.This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In this comprehensive history of American foreign-mission thought from the colonial period to the current era, William R. Hutchinson analyzes the varied and changing expressions of an American "sense of mission" that was more than religious in its implications. His account illuminates the dilemmas intrinsic to any venture in which one culture attempts to apply its ideals and technology to the supposed benefit of another.

Product Description: Mission For Life tells the remarkable story of two generations of an important family of evangelicals, the Judson family. The Judson's story is both colorful and extremely human, and the cast of characters is absorbing. This chronicle of a Baptist evangelical family represents a new and important direction in the social history of popular American religion...read more