Author: Mary Dorothy KeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Presbyterian Missionaries to the New Hebrides, 1848-1920
Author: Mary Dorothy KeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora
Author: William Harrison TaylorPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611462029
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to indifference, to support—reflected their considered application of the principles of the Reformed Tradition to the institution. Consequently, this collection reveals how the particular ways in which Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith. Faith and Slavery, by situating slavery at the nexus of Presbyterian theology and practice, offers a fresh perspective on the relationship between religion and slavery. It reverses the all too common assumption that religion primarily served to buttress existing views on slavery, by illustrating how groups’ and individuals reactions to slavery emerged from their understanding of the Presbyterian faith. The collection’s geographic reach—encompassing the experiences of people from Europe, Africa, America, and the Pacific—filtered through the lens of Presbyterianism also highlights the global dimensions of slavery and the debates surrounding it. The institution and the challenges it presented, Faith and Slavery stresses, reflected less the peculiar conditions of a particular place and time, than the broader human condition as people attempt to understand and shape their world.
Restoring Identities
Author: Upolu Lumā VaaiPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666720976
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
In a sense, Oceania can be considered a microcosm of World Christianity. Within this region are many of the same observable trends on the global level that impact Christian life, faith, and witness. The geography of Oceania--the "liquid continent"--is unique. Christianity arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the late eighteenth century via British colonial powers. Indigenous Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islanders, and Māori peoples were dispossessed of land, property, rights, and dignity. Christianity grew by migration and conversion (not always voluntary), and over time became tightly intertwined with culture. In the twentieth century, rapid secularization moved Christianity into the private sphere, and by 2020 Christian affiliation had dropped from 97 percent to 57 percent. However, the history of Christianity in the Pacific Islands--Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia--is quite different. Christianity arrived via Protestant and Catholic missionaries between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and grew substantially in the twentieth century largely due to indigenous Christian efforts. Islanders brought Christianity to neighboring islands, indigenous theologies developed, and churches gradually separated from their Western mission founders. One of the great "success stories" of World Christianity is Papua New Guinea, which grew from just 4 percent Christian in 1900 to 95 percent in 2020. However, growth is never the entire story. Violence against women is endemic in Papua New Guinea and is often combined with accusations of witchcraft. An estimated 59 percent of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime (and 48 percent in the last year). As Christianity continues its shift to the global South, it becomes increasingly critical to heed the experiences, perspectives, and theologies of Christians, particularly women, in the Pacific Islands.
Andrew Goldie in New Guinea 1875-1879
Author: Steve MullinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Andrew Goldie arrived in New Guinea early in 1876 on a contract to collect botanical specimens for the London nurseryman B.S. Williams. He also had separate arrangements with Ferdinand von Mueller, the Victoria Government Botanist, and E.P. Ramsay of the Australian Museum, to collect all kinds of specimens; botanical, ornithological, entomological, ichthyological and ethnological. In 1878 he established a trading store at Port Moresby to consolidate his business where he remained until poor health forced him to leave in 1890. Although very little has been published about Goldie, he is recognised as one of the most important collectors of New Guinea ethnological artefacts for Australia. The Museum of the Cumbraes, at Millport, Scotland, holds an unfinished, hand-written memoir by Goldie covering the period 1875-1879 that offers rare insights into Torres Strait and the southeast coast of New Guinea before they became parts of separate colonies. The memoir, extensively annotated, forms the centre piece of this monograph, contextualised by a biography, a detailed analysis of Goldie's ethnological collecting, and an annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Goldie ethnological artefacts at Queensland Museum and the Museum of the Cumbraes.
An Archaeology of Early Christianity in Vanuatu
Author: James L. FlexnerPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760460753
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between people, places, and objects. The archaeology of mission sites from Tanna and Erromango islands, southern Vanuatu (formerly the New Hebrides), offer an informative case study for understanding the material dimensions of religious change. One of the primary ways that cultural difference was thrown into relief in the Presbyterian New Hebrides missions was in the realm of objects. Christian Protestant missionaries believed that religious conversion had to be accompanied by changes in the material conditions of everyday life. Results of field archaeology and museum research on Tanna and Erromango, southern Vanuatu, show that the process of material transformation was not unidirectional. Just as Melanesian people changed religious beliefs and integrated some imported objects into everyday life, missionaries integrated local elements into their daily lives. Attempts to produce ‘civilised Christian natives’, or to change some elements of native life relating purely to ‘religion’ but not others, resulted instead in a proliferation of ‘hybrid’ forms. This is visible in the continuity of a variety of traditional practices subsumed under the umbrella term ‘kastom’ through to the present alongside Christianity. Melanesians didn’t become Christian, Christianity became Melanesian. The material basis of religious change was integral to this process.
Protestant missionary children's lives, c.1870-1950
Author: Hugh MorrisonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526156776
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.
Paradise Past
Author: Robert W. KirkPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786469781
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In the 400 years from Magellan's entrance into Pacific waters to 1920, the lives of the people of the South Pacific were utterly transformed. Exotic diseases from Europe and America, particularly the worldwide influenza pandemic, were deadly for islanders. Ardent missionaries changed the belief systems and lives of nearly all Polynesians, Aborigines, and those Papuans and Melanesians living in areas accessible to westerners. By 1920 every island and atoll in the South Seas had been claimed as a colony or protectorate of a power such as Britain, France or the United States. Factors aiding this imperial sweep included European outposts such as Sydney, advances in maritime technology, the work of missionaries, a desire to profit from the area's relatively sparse resources, and international rivalry that led to the scramble for colonies. The coming of westerners, as this book points out, was not entirely negative, as head-hunting, cannibalism, chronic warfare, human sacrifice, and other practices were diminished--but whole cultures were irreversibly changed or even eradicated.
Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples
Author: Alvyn AustinPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802037844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Christian missions and missionaries have had a distinctive role in Canada's cultural history. With Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples, Alvyn Austin and Jamie S. Scott have brought together new and established Canadian scholars to examine the encounters between Christian (Roman Catholic and Protestant) missionaries and the indigenous peoples with whom they worked in nineteenth- and twentieth-century domestic and overseas missions. This tightly integrated collection is divided into three sections. The first contains essays on missionaries and converts in western Canada and in the arctic. The essays in the second section investigate various facets of the Canadian missionary presence and its legacy in east Asia, India, and Africa. The third section examines the motives and methods of missionaries as important contributors to Canadian museum holdings of artefacts from Huronia, Kahnawaga, and Alaska, as well as China and the South Pacific. Broadly adopting a postcolonial perspective, Canadian Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples contributes greatly to the understanding of missionaries not only as purveyors of western religious values, but also as vehicles for cultural exchange between Native and non-Native Canadians, as well as between Canadians and the indigenous peoples of other countries.
A Century of Presbyterian Mission Education in the New Hebrides
Author: Malcolm Henry CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cultural property
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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