Sentences with phrase «surrounded by missionaries»

I grew up in South Africa, surrounded by missionaries.

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A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

Aging cream - colored bungalows, their arched verandas burdened with vines, were surrounded by a geometry of flower gardens and thick trees; early missionaries must have found the only eucalyptus grove in Jullundur.

I'd be curious how you would have changed if you were a Christian missionary in India who gave up your ideology but were surrounded by Hindus and safer to morph very differently.

The works inform the sensitive debate surrounding the demonisation and denigration of traditional religion instigated by colonial and missionary rhetoric, and more recently by the most dominant and visible forms of the religious belief systems in Nigeria and across the continent: Islam and Evangelical Christianity.