John S. Benson

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

Two Generations on Two Continents

• Format: PDF

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: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216227625
• Artikelnr.: 74843234

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