Named Groups

Missionaries

Persons sent into an area to evangelize or to perform acts of service, such as medical care, EDUCATION, or SOCIAL JUSTICE.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

Persons sent into an area to evangelize or to perform acts of service, such as medical care, EDUCATION, or SOCIAL JUSTICE.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Missionary

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Aspects Covered

6 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, education, history, legislation & jurisprudence, psychology, statistics & numerical data.

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Indexing Annotation

RELIGIOUS MISSIONS and MEDICAL MISSIONS are also available

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History Note

2015(1991); use MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES 1990-2014

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Previous Indexing

  • Missions and Missionaries (1990-2014)

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Tree Number

  1. M01w.427w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Missionaries. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D066189. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D066189
  2. Missionaries. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary
  3. Missionaries. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219477