Aotearoa New Zealand Association for
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Motivation of New Zealand Missionaries Peter J Lineham The notion of missionary motivation as raised by this paper is perhaps a misnomer, for it is an attempt to look across different missionary organisations and denominations to detect patterns of new missionary work from New Zealand and to define what factors may have been common to them.Among the factors isolated are 'colonial' outlooks, interest in Asia (particularly China), the impact of the broader range of the Moody and Sankey revival campaigns, as well as general patterns of missionary recruitment within the western world. Two particular waves of missionary recruitment are noted, in the 1890s and in the 1920s, and reasons are given for this.
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