Great News from Abroad
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Author : Lauren Frances Turek
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501748939
When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism. Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century.
Author : Michael Foot
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 178803869X
Old age is expensive - for the individual and the taxpayer. More expensive every year, as life expectancy rise and new drugs appear. Hetman, an ambitious Government Minister, has a 'new deal' to benefit the old and those who have to pay for them. Can he 'sell' the idea to Harry, a journalist who will then write favourably about it? How does the journalist test what is really at stake? Harry meets a supposed expert, Lise, in France. But who is she really and does she have her own agenda? How will the truth emerge and what happens when Harry finds it?
Author : Mary Cowden Clarke
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Page : 888 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Charlotte Anne (Waldie) Eaton
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 1843
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Boston (Mass.)
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Author : Suzy Hansen
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 35,76 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374712441
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Author : Henry Raymond Mussey
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1917
Category : America
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Author : Henry Addison Nelson
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Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Presbyterian Church
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Author : Thomas Heywood
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Page : 594 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 1853
Category : English drama
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