Shorter Notices - Proclaim the Good News: A Short History of the Church Missionary Society. By Jocelyn Murray. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1985. Pp. xiii + 304. £2.95 (paperback).

1985 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-441
Author(s):  
M. Louise Pirouet
Keyword(s):  
Good News ◽  
Short History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
The Church

scholarly journals Development of the Genealogical FamilySearch Database and Expanding Its Use to Map and Measure Multiple Generations of American Migration

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Samuel M. Otterstrom ◽  
Brian E. Bunker ◽  
Michael A. Farnsworth
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Short History ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Genealogical Data ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
The Church ◽  
Family Trees

Genealogical research is full of opportunities for connecting generations. Millions of people pursue that purpose as they put together family trees that span hundreds of years. These data are valuable in linking people to the people of their past and in developing personal identities, and they can also be used in other ways. The purposes of this paper are to first give a short history of the development and practice of family history and genealogical research in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which has developed the FamilySearch website, and second, to show how genealogical data can illustrate forward generation migration flows across the United States by analyzing resulting patterns and statistics. For example, descendants of people born in several large cities exhibited distinct geographies of migration away from the cities of their forebears.

scholarly journals Modes of narrativity in the short history of Nikephoros of Constantinople

2015 ◽  
pp. 9-29
Author(s):  
Dragoljub Marjanovic
Keyword(s):  
Short History ◽  
Specific Manner ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Relations ◽  
Key Accounts ◽  
Imperial Governance ◽  
The Church ◽  
Original Approach

Modes of narrativity applied in the Short history by Nikephoros of Constantinople are investigated on the basis of several key accounts which form a specific message of the author on the level of his entire work. This specific manner of literary presentation is particularly manifested in Nikephoros? original approach in portrayal of the Byzantine emperors and the patriarchs of Constantinople of the 7th and 8th centuries, thus embedding a specific idea of both imperial governance personalized in the reign of emperor Herakleios, and mutual relations between the Empire and the patriarchs of the Church of Constantinople, as presented in the accounts of patriarchs Sergios and Pyrrhos.

CHRISTIANS AMONG MUSLIMS: THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY IN THE NORTHERN SUDAN

2002 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEATHER J. SHARKEY
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Education Services ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
Colloquial Arabic ◽  
Local Opposition ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The Church

Church Missionary Society missionaries arrived in the northern Sudan in 1899 with the goal of converting Muslims. Restricted by the Anglo-Egyptian government and by local opposition to their evangelism, they gained only one Muslim convert during sixty years of work. The missionaries nevertheless provided medical and education services in urban centers and in the Nuba Mountains, and pioneered girls' schools. Yet few of their Sudanese graduates achieved functional Arabic literacy, since missionaries taught ‘romanized Arabic', a form of written colloquial Arabic, in Latin print, that lacked practical applications. Thus the history of the CMS in the northern Sudan yields insights into issues of education, power and religious identity within a colonial context.

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