Peering into Prisons, Gazing upon Graves: Early U.S. Missionary Media from Burma

This article examines the nineteenth-century print culture and religious imagination inspired by the imprisonment of an American Baptist missionary to Burma during the First Anglo-Burmese War, 1824–1826, and by the death of his wife and child shortly thereafter. Adoniram Judson had been incarcerated...

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Published in:Material religion
Main Author: Kaloyanides, Alexandra (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
In: Material religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 177-201
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Judson, Adoniram 1788-1850 / Myanmar / American Baptist Foreign Mission Society / Missionary / Family / Suffering / Spread of / Protestantism / Press / History 1839-2013
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
CH Christianity and Society
KBM Asia
KBQ North America
RJ Mission; missiology
ZA Social sciences
Further subjects:B Religious Imagination
B print culture
B Myanmar
B Evangelism
B Burma
B Missions
B Nineteenth-century
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