This fascinating probe into U.S. mission history spotlights four cases: Junipero Serra, the Franciscan whose mission to California natives has made him a candid

Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's polit

"This book tells the hidden story of women during the missionization of California. It shows what it was like for women to live and work on that frontier - and