Christian Missions and Oriental Civilizations: a Study in Culture Contact. The Reactions of Non-Christian Peoples to Protestant Missions from the Standpoint of Individual and Group Behaviour: Outline, Materials, Problems, and Tentative Interpretations

Abstract

THIS book makes a wide appeal. It is of interest to those who are actively concerned with the work of Christian missions, to anthropologists, to psychologists, and sociologists, and to those who have to deal with the practical problems of administration. It approaches the work of the missionary from a novel point of view. It does not deal with spiritual, theological, or metaphysical interpretations as such; but it examines the reactions of non-Christian peoples to the Christian Church's attempt to convert them—both the initial and temporary responses and those which are more permanent. Missionary effort during the last one hundred years is surveyed from this point of view.

Christian Missions and Oriental Civilizations: a Study in Culture Contact. The Reactions of Non-Christian Peoples to Protestant Missions from the Standpoint of Individual and Group Behaviour: Outline, Materials, Problems, and Tentative Interpretations.

By Dr. Maurice T. Price. Pp. xxvi + 578. (Shanghai: Edward Evans and Sons, Ltd.; London: G. E. Stechert and Co., 1924.) 16s.