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Mission for life : the story of the family of Adoniram Judson, the dramatic events of the first American foreign mission, and the course of evangelical religion in the nineteenth century by Brumberg, Joan Jacobs is a book available to read on EtoBox.

Adoniram Judson (1788-1850) Was Born At Malden And Reared At Plymouth, Massachusetts, And Was The First American To Become A Fully Committed Evangelical Foreign Missionary, First For The Congregationalists In 1812, But Almost Immediately For The American Baptists. He Served Chiefly In Burma, Married Three Times (his First Two Wives Died In Mission Field, And The Third Was A Fiction Writer Who Thereafter Used Her Talents As A Missionary Publicist)--and Was Notable For His Will- Ingness To Use Popular Cultural Forms To Push The Cause Of Religion. Descendants Lived In New York, Pennsylvania And Elsewhere. 1. Christian Hagiography -- 2. In The Bloom Of Life, With The Sentiments Of Old Age -- 3. Does The Biblimania Rage At Tavoy? -- 4. The Apostolate Of Women -- 5. Trippings In Author-land -- 6. Telic Adjustments And Terrestrial Magnetism -- 7. Benevolent Extortion -- Afterword. Joan Jacobs Brumberg. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 291-295.

Author

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs

Publisher

New York: Free Press

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780029051009

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, History