american missionaries were active in mashhad since qajar period and the presbyterian mission first established a hospital in mashhad and set up a great project for construction of a school and church by purchasing a large piece of land in pāchinār neighborhood since 1301 sh/1923. this enterprise by the american missioners elicited various reactions from the scholars, businessmen and others to s...

The history of Wesleyan Methodism in Zimbabwe speaks loudly about the role played by first missionaries. Most scholars credit these missionaries for sacrifices they made. However, expansion mission was largely work teacher-evangelists from South Africa. Among them were Modumedi Moleli and James Anta. Anta martyred Mashonaland during Shona uprising 1896–1897. Although two evangelists came to sam...

After more than 60 years of well-deserved prominence, Robert Ricard’s seductive characterization of Central Mexican evangelization projects as a “spiritual conquest” has gradually given way to a number of detailed ethnohistorical and linguistic studies in which the dialectical nature of evangelization attempts and the considerable variety of missionary results and native responses erode the cer...