| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.1

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Book Review

The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home: Explorations in North American Cultural History. Ed. by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xii, 332 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-8173-1245-5.)

Dependent on thousands of individual churchgoers for recruits and funds, the foreign missionary enterprise needed to cultivate its audiences at home as much as they needed to reach their audiences overseas. Although the literature that poured forth from mission presses was typically formulaic, the best essays in this collection reveal surprising and complex facets of the missionary enterprise's promotional work. They achieve this by looking beyond the self-referential texts of mission propaganda to real-world contexts, thereby demonstrating a dynamic interplay between missions and larger forces of social and cultural change.

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