TY - BOOK AU - Hollinger,David A TI - Protestants abroad: how missionaries tried to change the world but changed America SN - 9780691158433 AV - BV 2410 H65.2019 PY - 2019///, 2017 CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Missions, American KW - History KW - Misiones estadounidenses KW - Historia KW - Protestant churches KW - Missions KW - Iglesias protestantes KW - Misiones KW - United States KW - Estados Unidos N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice N2 - Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists ER -