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  • Faith in Schools

    Religion, Education, and American Evangelicals in East Africa

    de Amy Stambach ...
    American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received. Even among East African Christians who share missionaries' religious beliefs, understandings vary over the promises and pitfalls of American Evangelical involvement in public life and schools. In this first-hand account, Amy Stambach ... Leer más

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  • Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church

    Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work

    Pragmatic Faith and the Tanzanian Lutheran Church: Bishop Erasto N. Kweka’s Life and Work examines the operations and organization of the Tanzanian Lutheran church through the life and times of its longest serving diocesan bishop, Erasto N. Kweka. Amy Stambach and Aikande Kwayu develop the concept of pragmatic faith, belief-in-practice, to analyze the integration of religious experience, ... Leer más

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  • Confucius and Crisis in American Universities

    Culture, Capital, and Diplomacy in U.S. Public Higher Education

    de Amy Stambach ...
    Series series Education in Global Context
    China’s investment in U.S. higher education has raised considerable debate, but little research has been directed to the manner in which this investment unfolds and takes shape on the ground in local contexts. Confucius and Crisis in American Universities fills this gap by closely investigating how Chinese-funded U.S. programs are understood and configured in the modern American university. ... Leer más

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  • Lessons from Mount Kilimanjaro

    Schooling, Community, and Gender in East Africa

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    Sambach brings together an ethnograhic study of a school and community in East Africa. Stambach focuses on the role school plays in the development of the children's identity and relationships to their parents and community, as well as in the development of the region. At issue here are the competing influences of Western modernity and the cultural traditions of East Africa-ideas about gender ... Leer más

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  • Anthropological Perspectives on Student Futures

    Youth and the Politics of Possibility

    Edición de Amy Stambach, Kathleen D. Hall ...
    Series series Education (R0)
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