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At the beginning of the 20th century, the historic Protestant churches that worked in Latin America approached their evangelism efforts through education programs, health posts and supporting bible colportage work.

Expressions of evangelism in Latin America

L'autre type emprunte les reseaux du colportage et nourrit une vaste production d'imprimes a bas prix: recits de faits divers portes par une multitude d'<<occasionnels>>, de canards et de broadsheets, biographies romancees de criminels, relations d'execution capitale.

Enquete judiciaire, litterature et imaginaire social au XIXe siecle

In reality, livres de colportage had long circulated in rural areas, and reading aloud had even infiltrated some fireside veillees, which could introduce written stories to oral circulation (Agulhon 53-57; de Certeau 45-72).

Literature and the death of folklore: in and around Nerval's Sylvie

Torrey, Difficulties and Alleged Errors and Contradictions in the Bible (Chicago, IL: The Bible Institute Colportage Association, 1907), 29-32.

Darwinism, Fundamentalism, and R. A. Torrey

Mendenhall, Law and Covenant in Israel and the Ancient Near East (Pittsburgh, PA: Presbyterian Board of Colportage of Western Pennsylvania, 1955).

Enduring covenant in the Christian middle ages

Although Lazarillo was hot among the novels published by the printers in Troyes, Chartier nonetheless signals its specific influence on much of the French literature of roguery which formed an important part of the inventory common to colportage (265-67).

A French Lazarillo: translation and popular literature in nineteenth-century France

Ils font entre autres du colportage, des predications en plein air et a la radio, et distribuent des traites et des Bibles.

Robert Arsenault, Henri Lanctin Messager de la grace

Building on its network of local distributors, ATS instituted the colportage system in order to keep pace with the "rapid increase of our population.

Evangelical secularism and the measure of Leviathan

Where the novel aspires to Milton's baroque pathos, it is prone to tilt into the bathos of melodramatic colportage.

Revolution and redemption: Alfred Doblin's November 1918

Les commercants senegalais investissent tous les creneaux de l'economie formelle et informelle : de la vente a la sauvette au colportage, en passant par le commerce sedentaire et l'import-export.

Mettre en scene l'alterite : strategies, enjeux et contraintes. Le point de vue des <> en milieu urbain

La influencia de la llamada -en Espana- Literatura de Cordel y -en Francia- de colportage ha resultado muchas veces decisiva para que un asunto concreto se mantuviera en la memoria colectiva, o para que lo hiciera de una determinada manera, de acuerdo con un modelo ya fijado que era el que alcanzaba mayor divulgacion.

Amantes que se desvanecen en el tiempo: la memoria etnografica o la compleja significacion de las leyendas

Colportage is an apt description for an economy Gavarini continually and skillfully employs in her art.