Abstract
The scholarly community has often avoided the subject of missionaries and their activities, presuming the missionary impulse to be destructive of indigenous cultures. Further, "foreign missionary" work has often been considered a one-way street, that of mission groups converting peoples of other tribes, cultures, or countries. However, Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker's superbly edited work clearly points to the reciprocal impact overseas missionaries had on the identity, culture, and politics of the United States. The fifteen chapters were drawn from among the papers presented at the 1998 Wheaton College conference, "Missionary Impulse in North America," supported by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals.
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