The mission from an anthropological perspective

Authors

  • Ligia T. L. Simonian UFPA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5801/ncn.v2i1.209

Abstract

This article is a study about religious missions it discusses anthropological publications related to this theme, found within the analyses of various authors of the anthropology of religion. The author analyses academic publications from the middle of the last century to understand the relations between missionaries and anthropologists. The article relates how anthropologists view missions and gives a large theoretical revision about the anthropological interpretations of the missions.

Published

2009-05-18

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