New research by Jennifer Thigpen, associate professor of history and an expert on America’s foreign mission movement, demonstrates that, as American Protestant missionaries and their wives labored to bring Christianity to the region’s native inhabitants in the early nineteenth century, they also carefully built networks across a complex set of competing local, national and international interests. “Going Out to the World: The American Foreign Mission Movement in the Global West” is the tentative title of her new book-length project. Read more about Dr. Thigpen’s research.
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Dr. Jennifer Thigpen researches America’s foreign mission movement