A new mission in Japan -- Becoming a Norwegian-American Lutheran -- Discerning a missionary call -- Encountering Japan -- Working as a full-time missionary -- Working as a missionary wife -- Interpreting the experience -- Appendix: list of ELC missionaries in Japan 1950-1955
Summary
This study examines a group of young Norwegian-American missionaries sent to Japan in the early 1950s. Certain that a communist regime would take over and make mission work impossible, as in China, they instead witnessed Japan's economic transformation and were affected by postcolonial ideologies and new ways to understand "mission."
