MISSIONARIES ABROAD

In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 368, S. 21-30

Abstract

The total/sum of US citizens serving abroad as missionaries has never been as great as in 1966. Almost 82.5% are Protestant. An increasing % are Roman Catholic. The communist control has expelled US missionaries from the mainland of China & North Korea, but, with these exceptions, they are in most countries in Asia, Africa, & Latin America, & in Madagascar & the majority of islands in the Pacific & off the southeast coast of Asia. In most of these regions, the Christian communities which they serve are growing both in numbers & in indigenous leadership. In numerous other ways-medicine & health, educ, & agri-US missionaries are having an effect on the cultures of the peoples among whom they live. Because of the multiplication of Amer's abroad in other occup's, missionaries now constitute a smaller % of their countrymen in other lands than in the interval between the 2 world wars. But they continue to be highly signif. HA.