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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Form and Function of Nineteenth-Century Missionary Periodicals: Introduction
Contributor:
Jensz, Felicity;
Acke, Hanna
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2013
Published in:
Church History, 82 (2013) 2, Seite 368-373
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0009640713000036
ISSN:
0009-6407;
1755-2613
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
At the 1860 conference on Protestant missions held in Liverpool, a session was dedicated to the use of the reported 200,000 monthly missionary periodicals produced by various societies for encouraging the home support of missionary work. The 125 delegates from more than twenty-five Protestant missionary societies both in Britain and abroad had divergent opinions on the prospective contents and audiences for missionary periodicals. One thing that they did agree upon, however, was their necessity. The Reverend Thomas Green from the Church Missionary Society noted that missionary periodicals provided a means of “influencing” the minds of readers in order to excite the missionary spirit among the home community. The high circulation of missionary periodicals was, according to the Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, Reverend Frederick Trestrail, an indication that they provided a source of information that was received willingly and consumed by the masses.