How Long to Read The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission

How Long Does it Take to Read The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission by Rita Smith Kipp

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This fascinating story of a Dutch Reformed mission among the Karo of North Sumatra chronicles the field's first fifteen years - 1889-1904. Plantation executives sponsored the mission, hoping to enlist the Karo as Christian allies in a colonial war against Muslim "fanatics." But the Karo hated the plantations, and likewise distrusted and resisted the missionaries. Civil servants saw the mission as a forerunner of the government's annexation of the Sumatran highlands, and in the military expedition to take the region, the missionaries played a prominent role. Consequently, the missionaries found their credibility diminished by their links to the despised colonial apparatus. Nonetheless, the missionaries' motives were religious, and they struggled with the compromises that made their work possible, yet ultimately precluded its success. Unlike other missionary studies - that focus on biography or on large regions - this historical ethnography concentrates on a single field, and on the personalities and activities of the several men who pioneered it in its formative years. It examines the missionaries' assumptions and values, describe how the missionaries contrasted themselves with the government and capitalist business, and explores the difficulties of translating Christianity across a great cultural gulf. The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission will give pause to anyone who has thought missionaries heroic, or to anyone who has thought them mislead.

How long is The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission?

The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission by Rita Smith Kipp is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.

This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission aloud.

What Reading Level is The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission?

The Early Years of a Dutch Colonial Mission is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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