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The missionary movement in American Catholic history
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- Creator
- Angelyn Dries
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1570751676, 9781570751677
- OCLC
- ocm37721256
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-375) and index.
- Mission in the colonial period, 1492-1775 -- Mission within the United States, 1820-1920 -- Missions overseas, 1820-93 -- The Spanish-American War, the Americanist period, and a national focus for missions overseas, 1898-1919 -- "America's hour" for missions overseas, 1918-35 -- "Light to the darkness": mission to Asia, 1918-53 -- Struggle for world order, 1946-59 -- From "rehabilitation" to "development": Latin America, 1959-71 -- A time for reassessment: liberation theology and the "option for the poor," 1965-80 -- U.S. Catholic mission history: themes and threads, 1850-1980