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Rickards, Donald R. "Suggested models in evangelizing Muslims." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Lau, Hon Chung. "Fishers of men in the abode of peace missiological reflections on Brunei Darussalam /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Olsen, Willard C. "Case studies of church planting ministries among Muslim Filipinos." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005.
Includes abstract. Abstract has title: Case studies of successful church planting ministries among Muslim Filipinos. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 242-249).
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Miller, John G. "The preparation of a manual to train others in Muslim evangelism." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Wagner, Mark. "Using the Old Testament to create redemptive understanding among Muslim seekers." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Baker, Karen. "The 21st century Mandaean Diaspora new opportunities to reach Iraqi Mandaean refugees with the Gospel /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2007. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Williamson, Paul A. "Missionary self-identification in Muslim contexts." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1129.

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Siha, Anees Zaka. "Principles and methods of church growth in a North American Muslim context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Smith, Mary M. "The Lebanese Shiite women's worldview and felt needs implications for evangelism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Jung, Wolfgang E. W. "Contextualization in the Old and New Testament and its application to Muslim evangelism in the Phillipines." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Nevius, Wesley A. "Leading Muslims to Christ in Dakar, Senegal." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1482.

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Ray, David W. "Establishing national intercultural ministry training in a resistant context towards effectiveness, sustainability and broad-based support /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Rofi'i, Imam. "Soviet anti-religious policies and the Muslims of Central Asia, 1917-1938." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=26320.

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This thesis examines the impact of Soviet anti-religious policies on the Muslims of Central Asia from 1917 to 1938. The long struggle of the Bolsheviks to come to the power, their attempts to perpetuate the Russian hegemony in Central Asia, and the reactions of the Central Asian people towards the new regime will all form part of this thesis. Having successfully brought about the revolution, the Bolsheviks faced many challenges. One the famous slogans of the revolution, recognition of each nationality's right of self determination, boomeranged on the Bolsheviks, with the European proletariat deserting from the path of the revolution and proclaiming their own independence. In this situation, the Bolsheviks endeavored to gain the support of the Muslims. The government made many promises to the Muslims but, at the same time, dissolved the Kokand government established by the Muslims, causing Muslium revolts throughout the Central Asian region. The Muslim threat was met with measures of appeasement. The government's promises succeeded in attracting the modernist Muslims to cooperate with the regime. A strategy of "divide and rule" and of indirect attacks on Islam was employed, aiming at the annihilation of Islam. Conservative Muslims continued to vehemently oppose the Soviet regime and its policies. But, given the success of the regime in the civil war, and the lack of unity and the strength among Muslims, the Soviet anti-religious policies in Central Asia succeeded at the institutional level, to do great damage to Islam. However, these policies proved ineffectual in destroying the influence of Islamic teachings on the Muslims of Central Asia.
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Pritzlaff, Allen. "Evangelizing Russian-speaking Muslims in Kazakhstan through contextualizing the Scriptures a case study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p002-0823.

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Vander, Berg Edward. "A study of Quranic Jesus texts and their missionary implications." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Manuel, David James. "Ahmadiyya movement in Islam." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Back, Peter Robert. "Should missionaries keep the Muslim fast?" Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Choi, Gab Do. "A study on the spread of Islam in Korea and the Korean encounter with Islam." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Durfey, Rebecca K. "Receptivity to women missionaries' ministry experiences among Muslims." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Wain, Alexander David Robert. "Chinese Muslims and the conversion of the Nusantara to Islam." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:53a48196-ac0e-4510-b74d-794c48e976ed.

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This thesis is a comprehensive re-examination of Maritime Southeast Asia's (or the Nusantara's) Islamic conversion history between the late thirteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Traditionally, academia has attributed this event to Muslim traders and/or Sufis from either India and/or the Middle East. During the late twentieth century, however, a number of scholars began to consider the possibility of Chinese Muslim involvement. The resulting discussions focused on a re-evaluation of Javanese history in the context of attempts to re-conceptualise pre-modern Nusantara trade (considered the catalyst for Islamisation) as fundamentally orientated towards Southern China, where Muslims played a significant commercial role from the seventh through to the early fifteenth centuries. Despite the intrinsic merits of these efforts, however, they have all been limited by an overwhelming focus on Java and a tendency to examine the relevant issues over only a very narrow time span. This thesis seeks to rectify these problems. First, it will evaluate the validity of the new commercial framework over a much longer period – from the rise of Śrīvijaya in the seventh century CE to the establishment of the early seventeenth-century European trade monopolies. This longue dureé view will provide a much stronger basis for both conclusively re-orientating pre-modern Nusantaran trade towards China and also positing it as the catalyst for conversion, with Chinese Muslims at its heart. Second, the thesis will look beyond Java to examine the conversion histories of several other important Nusantara locations (Samudera-Pasai, Melaka and Brunei), as accessed through early written texts (indigenous, European and Chinese) and archaeology. The thesis then, and thirdly, couples this examination with a consideration of the Islamic influences which came to bear on the Nusantara’s early intellectual and architectural expressions of Islam. Ultimately, by taking this broad chronological, geographical and cultural approach, the thesis aims to more reliably assess the possibility that Chinese Muslims influenced the Nusantara’s initial Islamisation process.
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Welch, Edward A. "Resources for SIM personnel preparing to work among Muslims." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Tjosvold, Timothy. "Observations and recommendations for the evangelical churches of Benin on planting churches among Muslims." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p006-1542.

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Eggert, David. "A strategic analysis of potential Turkish mission thrust to the Turkic peoples of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Gmür, Marco. "Different types of mission approaches of tentmakers among unreached Muslim people groups." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Robb, Megan Eaton. "Interpreting the qasbah conversation : Muslims and Madinah newspaper, 1912-1924." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:aed9cab9-4c62-40ab-93dc-6d22189186f7.

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This thesis’ original contribution to knowledge is to indicate the unique contribution of qasbah­‐based Urdu newspapers to the emergence of an Urdu public sphere in early 20th century South Asia, using as a primary lens the Urdu newspaper Madīnah. In doing so, this thesis will shed light on debates relating to Muslim religious identity, urban life, social status, and gender reform. Madīnah newspaper was published in Bijnor qasbah in Bijnor district, UP, from 1912 onwards. By the early 20th century, elite, literate qasbah dwellers increased their attachment to their ashrāf identity, even as the definition of that social status group was being transformed. The nature of ashrāf conceptions of the qasbah in the Urdu newspaper conversation sheds light onto the nature of the Urdu public sphere, complicating existing narrative explanations of UP Muslim identity transformations. In the 12 years that constitute the span of the study, international developments such as the Italo-­‐Turkish War, the Balkan Wars, and World War I, with domestic transformations in municipal policies and the activism of some Hindu groups motivated Muslims to redefine their place in early 20th century society. At the same time, the early 20th century saw the rising prominence of the qasbah as a centre of spiritual and cultural life among ashrāf Muslims. World War I and the non-­‐cooperation movement threatened the British Empire’s hold on South Asia. In the midst of these shifting sands stood the city of Bijnor, a backwoods qasbah in the district of the same name. Bijnor’s publication Madīnah provided a regional platform for scholars, laymen, and poets to discuss their place in the new order. As part of a network of literary publications exchanged between qasbahs in the first half of the twentieth century, Madīnah shaped and complicated gender boundaries, religious identity, social status, and political alliance, all in the service of the Muslim ummah, or community. This thesis places Madīnah in the context of the broader Urdu newspaper market and the incipient newspaper culture of qasbahs, which both reflected the broadened geographic horizon of the qasbatī ashrāf and placed a premium on the qasbah as a place set apart from the city. After laying this foundation, the thesis turns to the place of Islam in qasbah newspapers and Madīnah. Newspapers reflected a division among ashrāf regarding the centrality of Islam in elite culture, revealing an ideological division between the qasbah and major urban centres Delhi, Lucknow, and Calcutta. Madīnah and other newspapers sought to establish an indelible link between Islam and ashrāf identity, in contrast to some urban newspapers, which sought to lay the groundwork instead for a secular, nationalized Muslim identity. This thesis then turns to the expanding geographic horizons of Madīnah newspaper, both enabled by novel technology and neutralized as a threat by careful framing of international and trans-‐regional content. The subsequent chapter deals with Madīnah's Women’s Newspaper, which demonstrated a trend toward gender ventriloquism in reformist approaches to gender. Many articles penned ostensibly by women had male authors; Madīnah's articles expressed a complex set of reactions to intimate female experiences, including curiosity, fascination, and anxiety. Qasbah newspapers offer new avenues for insight into the tensions that characterized the Urdu public of the early 20th century. This thesis highlights the character of qasbatī ashrāf's engagement with the broader literary conversation via newspapers during a time of dramatic social transformation, in the process contributing to the form of the Urdu public sphere.
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Smither, Edward L. "Brazilian evangelical missions among Arabs : history, culture, practice, and theology." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25509.

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The aim of this work is to tell part of the story of the Brazilian evangelical missions movement by focusing on the work and Brazilian evangelical transcultural workers serving in mission in the context of the Arab-Muslim world. These participants are members of a broader movement of more than 5000 Brazilian evangelicals serving around the world - an evangelical labor force large than that of England or Canada - which has grown significantly since 1976. In order to locate the work of Brazilian evangelicals in an Arab-Muslim context, it was important to first offer a historical narrative showing how Brazil has shifted in the twentieth century from being a “mission field” to being a base for sending missions. Relying on key historical literature, this has been accomplished first by recounting how Brazil was evangelized largely by North American missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Building on this narrative, the argument has been made that while the Brazilian evangelical church does share common characteristics with North American and global evangelicalism, it has also begun to forge its own evangelical identity. One important part of this identity is its concrete participation in global mission efforts. As transcultural mission necessarily involves cultural adaption, forty-five past and present Brazilian evangelical workers were invited to participate in a collective case study and reflect upon their own “Brazilianness” and how they have adapted in the Arab world. The perspectives of ten Brazilian mission leaders have also been included. In this study, I have treated Brazil as an affinity bloc of cultures in which there is clear diversity as well as some elements of cohesiveness. I have approached the Arab world in the same way. Hence, the framework for discussing Brazilians in the Arab world has been to reflect upon two affinity blocs and to ask members of one group (Brazilians) to share their collective experiences living in a second group (the Arab world) specifically regarding seven aspects of culture that have clear missiological implications. They include: race, economics, time, communication, family, relationships, and spiritual worldview. After hearing these Brazilian voices, it has become evident, culturally, speaking that Brazilians are not Arabs and that Brazilians must surely work to adapt culturally. However, it also appears that there is generally less cultural distance between the Brazilians surveyed and their Arab contexts than what is normally experienced by Western missionaries in the Arab world. This study was also concerned with asking, how are Brazilian evangelicals approaching mission in the Arab-Muslim world? Following a collective case study methodology, this question was posed to individual Brazilians and teams, but also to Brazilian evangelical missions organizations working in the Arab world. While a number of themes (strategies and practices) emerged, it seems that Brazilians are particularly concerned about humanitarian work and personal evangelism and would regard these areas as strengths of their movement. On the other hand, Brazilian workers and mission leaders also identified the most apparent challenges in their work among Arab-Muslims. They included: a lack of Brazilian local church support for missionaries, deficiencies in language learning, lack of financial support, and difficulties faced by Brazilian women in Arab contexts. For each apparent difficulty, I have proposed some solutions based on the collective input of Brazilian voices. Finally, in this study, I have posed the question, how do Brazilians think theologically about mission? Also, how is this Brazilian missiology relevant to transcultural mission work in the Arab-Muslim world? While I have approached this question primarily through surveying the literature from Latin American and Brazilian theologians, I have also looked for missiological themes in the thoughts of Brazilian evangelical workers and through observing their concrete mission practices. From this, four theological themes have emerged that are descriptive of Brazilian missions. They include: that mission is holistic (missão integral); that mission is church-centered; that authentic mission originates from “below” or from a posture of vulnerability; and that one‘s missiology must be undergirded by an awareness of the spiritual world. In summary, through this work, I have have endeavored to tell part of the story of an emerging majority world missions movement by listening to the voices of Brazilian transcultural workers who serve in the Arab-Muslim world. The goal of this study is to inform the global church of this phenomenon in order that the global church would learn from the Brazilian experience as it moves forward in mission and missiological reflection. Secondly, my desire is to provide a framework of self-reflection for Brazilian evangelical missionaries and missions organizations serving in both the Arab-Muslim world but also in the entire world.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2011.
Science of Religion and Missiology
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Love, Richard Deane. "The theology of the kingdom of God a model for contextualization and holistic evangelism among the Sundanese with special reference to the spirit realm /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, 1992.
Each volume has separate title: v. 1. Understanding the Sundanese worldview with special reference to the spirit realm--v.2. The theology of the kingdom of God--v.3. Ilmu kerajaan Allah = Bible studies on the kingdom of God. Includes bibliographies.
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Laroche, Patrice. "L'évangélisation des musulmans en France antécédents historiques et pastorale contemporaine /." Lille : Atelier national de reproduction des thèses, 2004. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/54542441.html.

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Batson, Douglas E. "Strategies for recruiting, training and retaining North American Christian workers among Turkish Muslims in Germany." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Kronk, Richard K. "Non-literary personal revelation the role of dreams and visions in Muslim conversion /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Romaine, James Gaillard. "Toward a culturally relevant and practical church planting strategy for use in Istanbul, Turkey." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Ritchey, Jonathan C. "A survey of Muslim work among the Dioula with reference to an urban setting in the Cote d'Ivoire." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Ibrahim, Siman Yila-Alukeh. "The priesthood of all believers and evangelization an application through a discipleship center /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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De, Haan Dave. "Evaluation of a church development strategy in a closed country." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.

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Zonozy, Nassrullah Y. (Nassrullah Yeganeh). "A Comparative Study of Terrorism in Southwest Asia 1968-1982." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc331211/.

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This study assumes that political terrorism results from conscious decision-making by groups opposing a governing system, policy or process. The kinds of terrorist activity employed depend upon such factors as the philosophy, goals, objectives, and needs of the terrorist group. This presents a comparative analysis of three types of terrorists in southwest Asia: Palestinians, Marxist-Leninists, and Muslims. The first section summarizes and compares the three groups' motivational causes, philosophies, histories and sources of inspiration. The second section compares their behavior from four perspectives: trends and patterns, level of violence, tactical preferences, and lethality. The third section identifies and categorizes socioeconomic, political and military variables associated with tactic selection and acts of terrorism.
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Celum, Warren R. "Bridges and hurdles a manual for effective use of the 'Jesus' film with Muslims /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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Azilah, Godsave L. "Some factors in black African Islam which impact evangelistic strategy : megatrends in Muslim evangelism in black Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Gates, Paul Hamilton. "The "messiah" title of the Muslim Jesus." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1167.

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Mansur, Yohanes D. "To give an answer to every man trinitarian and christological views in the apologetic of Hamran Ambrie of Indonesia /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Alberts, Tara Marie Alexandra. "Conflict and conversion on the Catholic missions of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608566.

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Allen, Joe Morris. "An evaluation of the Christology of the Camel training manual." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1157.

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Elliott, Ralph. "How the term "trinity" can be made clearer to a Muslim." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.

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Ghattas, Raouf W. "Using a contextualized version of the Survival kit and Masterlife to train Christian Arabic women to evangelize Muslim women." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Wilson, Franklin Wade. "The Kingdom in context the Christian community in an Islamic culture /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Stern, Ryan K. "The challenge of contextualization in Muslim ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2008. http://www.tren.com.

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Bronoske, Bruce Leonard. "A comparative study of the self-revelation of Jesus found in the canonical New Testament and the Jesus of the Qur'an, and the effect a Muslim seeker's understanding of Jesus has upon their decision to convert to Christianity." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p106-0001.

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Couch, James Gregory. "Storytelling the gospel in a Muslim context." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Brennan, Joseph William. "Christianity in the Philippines in the twentieth century why is the only Christian nation in Asia in need of evangelism? /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Norwood, John V. "Developing a course for training oral learners in South Asia to use chronological Bible storying for evangelism and church planting." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Skiles, Debra Faith. "I Would Never Set Foot On American Soil Again: Religion, Space, and Gender: American Missionaries in Korea." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/105129.

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By using three lenses of analysis not often used together, theology, space and gender, this dissertation explores the decisions, practices, and gender dynamics of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Southern Presbyterian missionaries to Korea. The Southern Presbyterian's missionary theology drew not only from Presbyterian beliefs and doctrine, but also from more radical ideas outside the church. This more radical theology emphasized the importance of and expedient nature in achieving world evangelism. To advance world evangelism as quickly as possible, the missionaries' primary focus became converting Koreans to Christianity. Therefore, to convert Koreans, both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created sex-segregated spaces to conform with Korean cultural expectations for spatial use and, secondly, used them for intimate, one-on-one evangelism, similar to the "inquiry room" styled evangelism of Dwight Moody. These decisions put American women to work in gender roles that mimicked those of men as primary evangelists, teachers, and tacit pastors to Korean women. These changes in theology, changes in spatial arrangements, and changes in gender roles characterized the Southern Presbyterian mission to Korea. Importantly, all three of these transformations, when implemented on the ground in Korea, did not contradict with one another, however, instead contributed to the success of the mission with each change supporting the others. While the Southern Presbyterians espoused a conservative evangelical theology, that included conservative social values, their mission theology, based in their belief that they could help usher in the second coming of Jesus, superseded the upholding of Southern gender norms for women. Further, missionaries' intimate evangelism in sex-segregated spaces allowed for evangelism of both Korean men and women in spaces and existing religious styles Koreans already considered as appropriate for religious or quasi-religious activities. By using three fields of analysis, connections between the rise of Christianity in Korea and missionary inner social dynamics can be seen. Specifically, the analysis sheds light on the significant role a group of evangelizers dedicated to certain theological beliefs not only shape a mission's endeavors but also the lives of the missionaries themselves. Theses lenses of analysis also show that much similarity existed between existing Korean spatial religious practices and the spatial evangelistic methods used by the missionaries. Also, changes within missionary gender roles can be explained which exposes the central work of evangelism done by not only single female missionaries, but married ones as well.
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This dissertation explores the work of one group of Protestant religious imperialists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Southern Presbyterian missionaries to Korea, by looking at the missionaries' Christian beliefs, the ways in which the missionaries built their homes and buildings and used them for evangelism, and the jobs they performed on the mission field. The Southern Presbyterian missionaries' Christian beliefs drew not only from the Southern Presbyterian denomination's beliefs and doctrine, but also from more radically evangelical ideas outside the church. This more radical theology emphasized the importance of evangelizing every area of the world to bring the second coming of Jesus. Therefore, the missionaries prime and most important focus was on converting Koreans to Christianity. To accomplish their goal of converting both Korean women and men, the Southern Presbyterians made two more changes, they created spaces where men missionaries would met only with Korean men, and women missionaries would only meet with Korean women. Secondly, they used their created spaces for intimate, one-on-one evangelism. This put American women to work in jobs that mimicked those of men as primary evangelists, teachers, and tacit pastors to Korean women. These changes in beliefs, changes in spatial arrangements, and changes in the jobs men and women did characterized the Southern Presbyterian mission to Korea. By looking at the beliefs, the ways which they organized and used space, and the jobs they did on the mission field, connections between the rise of Christianity in Korea and missionary everyday decisions, life, and jobs can be seen. Specifically, the dissertation sheds light on the significant role a group of evangelizers dedicated to certain theological beliefs not only shape a mission's endeavors but also change the lives of the missionaries themselves. By looking at these factors, this dissertation also shows that much similarity existed between existing Korean spatial religious practices and the spatial evangelistic methods used by the missionaries. Also, changes within missionary gender roles can be explained which exposes the central work of evangelism done by not only single female missionaries, but married ones as well.
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