John S. Benson

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity (eBook, ePUB)

Two Generations on Two Continents

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Missionary Families Find a Sense of Place and Identity is a community history of members of nineteen Lutheran missionary families who served in Tanzania. Based on over ninety interviews and John Benson's extensive knowledge of cultural geography, he compares the lives of the missionary generation who grew up in the United States and went to Tanzania as missionaries to those of their children who grew up in Africa but settled in the United States as adults. Benson blends his personal experiences as a child of missionaries in Tanzania to tell the story of both generations. Missionary Families is centered on the themes of connection to place and religious development and will appeal to scholars of geography, cultural studies and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 271
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498504867
• Artikelnr.: 43811957

Autorenporträt

John Benson is professor in the School of Teaching and Learning, Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: History of a Mission Chapter 2: Place and Religion in the
Childhoods of the Missionary Generation Chapter 3: Place and Religion in
the Childhoods of the Second Generation Chapter 4: The College Experience
for Both Generations Chapter 5: "The Call" for Two Generations Chapter 6:
Making Sense of an Alien Place: Tanzania Chapter 7: The Adult Lives of the
Second Generation: Finding a Partner Chapter 8: The Occupational Choices of
Adult Children of Missionaries Chapter 9: The Second Generation Forming
Connection to Places as Adults Chapter 10: Faith of Our Fathers Living
Still Chapter 11: Placing Our Lives