Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences

Cavalcanti, H. B.

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“…Religion has motivated migration, both in the past (Dann ; Reinhard ; Beiler ) and present; internationally (Dietz ; Cavalcanti ) and internally (Toney ; Toney, Stinner, and Kan ; Stump ); and among Christians (Connor ; Anderson ), Jews (Dashefsky and Lazerwitz ; Palmer ), Muslims (Eickelman and Piscatori ; Masud ), Buddhists (Carter ), and others. Despite religion's diffuse role in triggering migration—apparent in these cases but seemingly incidental in inclusion—religiously motivated migration has been undertheorized, an oversight this article rectifies with a theoretical framework that demonstrates how religion can influence migration decisions.…”

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Religiously Motivated Migration

Anderson

2016

The Sociological Quarterly

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Self-interested motives are typically assumed when addressing migration causation. However, values, such as those from religion, can also motivate migration. This study develops a theoretical framework of religiously motivated migration. Inasmuch as values are derived from and reinforced within groups, religions with strong cohesion are more likely to act on one of three value-based religious migration motivations: sacred command, context conducive for religious practice, and awareness of potential membership losses from competition. This theoretical framework is demonstrated through Amish-Mennonite migration. Generalizability is suggested from a brief review of the Puritans, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, and Russian Mennonites.

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Religiously Motivated Migration

Anderson

2016

The Sociological Quarterly

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Non-liberal Internationalism: The Field of International Mission Agencies

Krause

Robinson

2022

Global Society

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Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion

Hager

2021

Sociology of Religion

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Do Protestant missionaries affect community cohesion? This study puts forth two mechanisms that link missionaries to trusting, cooperative community life: pro-social preferences and social networks. On the one hand, Protestant missionaries espouse charity, and they establish regular venues of social interaction. On the other hand, Protestant missionaries propagate an individualist faith, and they provide an identity along which communities may separate. The effect of Protestant missionaries on community cohesion is thus unclear. To make headway on these conflicting theoretical predictions, we study variation in missionary activity in southeastern Peru. We document that villages with Protestant missions show lower levels of community cohesion compared to non-missionized, Catholic villages. We point to weakened networks as the most likely causal channel and show that effect sizes are particularly large among Pentecostal missionaries.

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Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences

Cited by 5 publications

References 27 publications

Religiously Motivated Migration

Religiously Motivated Migration

Non-liberal Internationalism: The Field of International Mission Agencies

Protestant Missionaries Are Associated With Reduced Community Cohesion

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