Missionary Self-Perception and Meaning-Making in Cross-Cultural Mission
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Missionary Self-Perception and Meaning-Making in Cross-Cultural Mission

The purpose of this article is to outline the missionary self-perception that is mediated in meaningful stories about activities and experiences of Protestants while serving as missionaries abroad.

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Missionary Self in Cross-Cultural Mission
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Missionary Self in Cross-Cultural Mission

exc-5a23fbb6343a9bd737479e06 Religiously motivated missions are part of a long historical tradition in vari­ous world religions. Missions are usually regarded as undertakings to prop­ agate, spread and communicate religious beliefs, values…

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Acculturation of Missionaries – How Religious Orientations Affect Cultural Adjustment?
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Acculturation of Missionaries – How Religious Orientations Affect Cultural Adjustment?

Although it is evident that religiously motivated missions are part of a long historical tradition in various ‘world religions’ (e.g. Smith, 1991) in the course of which experiences of ‘cultural…

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Religious Self-Transformation and Faith Development of Protestant Missionaries
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Religious Self-Transformation and Faith Development of Protestant Missionaries

According to the “Status of Global Mission” (Bonk, 2011, p.29), widely considered as serious statistics of missionary population, in the year 2011 approximately 4,800 mission societies (“foreign-mission sending agencies”; line…

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Religion as Experience: On the Way to an Interpretive Psychology of Religion
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Religion as Experience: On the Way to an Interpretive Psychology of Religion

Another paper presenting an approach to interpretive cultural psychology of religion is finished. The underlying theoretical and methodological approach is located within a hermeneutical, interpretive framework of the psychology of…

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Dr. Maik Arnold is Professor for Non-Profit-Management and Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Transfer at University of Applied Science Dresden.