Shaping “Reach Out, Build Up, Send Back”: Overseas Christian Fellowship’s Student Returnee Mission and Cold War Australia’s Colombo Plan, 1959–1979
Why did Asian Christian international students return home with a missionary mindset during the Cold War? This study answers the question by investigating Overseas Christian Fellowship (OCF) Australia and its student returnee mission. I show that OCF’s returnee mission was shaped by Australia’s Cold...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Social sciences and missions
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 85-124 |
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Overseas Christian Fellowship
B Cold War B Plan Colombo B étudiants asiatiques internationaux B mission retour B Asian international students B Australie B returnee mission B Colombo Plan B Australia B Guerre froide |
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| Summary: | Why did Asian Christian international students return home with a missionary mindset during the Cold War? This study answers the question by investigating Overseas Christian Fellowship (OCF) Australia and its student returnee mission. I show that OCF’s returnee mission was shaped by Australia’s Cold War foreign policy – the Colombo Plan Scheme. The paper argues that the time-limited conditions imposed by the Scheme established a migratory and educational training pattern which influenced OCF’s mission of evangelising overseas students and training its members to return home as Christian witnesses. In conclusion, I observe a student-led, faith-based Australia-Asia imaginary emerging from OCF’s mission. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8945 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Social sciences and missions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748945-bja10099 |
