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Exploring LDS Missionary Blogs: How Culture Manifests in Self-Narratives of Foreign Missionaries

Missionaries serving in foreign countries provide a unique perspective on culture that they chronicle on public blogs. A content analysis of these blogs showed that missionaries use their own cultural and religious frame to make observations, some good and some bad, about cultural habits and beliefs foreign to their own. Through the medium of blogging, we see how missionaries use self-narratives to understand and make sense out of differences in culture and beliefs that ultimately impact how they identify themselves.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BGMYU2/oai:scholarsarchive.byu.edu:etd-6689
Date01 October 2015
CreatorsGathu, Karina Marie
PublisherBYU ScholarsArchive
Source SetsBrigham Young University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
SourceTheses and Dissertations
Rightshttp://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/

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