Author: Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Report of the Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary Society for the Year Ending ..., with an Account of the Contributions Received for the Year ...
Author: Australasian Wesleyan-Methodist Missionary SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Manifestations of Mana
Author: Paul van der GrijpPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643904967
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This book explores the role of mana in past and present configurations of chiefly power in the Pacific. Chiefs are often seen as transitional figures between traditional (tribal or feudal) and modern forms of leadership, the latter characterized by rationality and the nation-state with its accompanying bureaucracy. Today, the political arena in the Pacific, although occupied by presidents, members of parliament and court justices, is still ruled by chiefs supporting their authority by tradition, including the notion of mana. Mana may be defined as divine inspiration or energy that manifests itself in persons, objects, places and natural phenomena. Polynesian chiefs have mana because of their descent from ancient gods. Other key concepts such as asymmetrical ideology, mythical constructions of social reality, and social drama are elaborated and applied to a wide specter of ethnographic examples. The configuration and reconfiguration of Tongan chieftaincy and kingship in this book are analyzed as an extended case study of the gradual, and sometimes shock-like, integration of a Polynes ian culture into a global structure, a nation-state, partly imposed from the outside (missionarization, colonization) but also generated from within including state formation and the recent quest for democracy. Together with other Polynesian examples, this forms a relevant illustration of both continuity and change in the configuration of mana and chieftaincy in processes of globalization in the Pacific.
Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917
Author: Margaret ReesonPublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 192186298X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, writer, constant traveller, collector of artefacts, photographer and stirrer. He saw himself, at heart, as a missionary. The islands of the Pacific Ocean were the scene of his endeavours, with extended periods lived in Samoa and the New Britain region of todays Papua New Guinea, followed by repeated visits to Tonga, Fiji, the Milne Bay region of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It could be argued that while he was a missionary in the Pacific region he was not a pacific missionary. Brown gained unwanted notoriety for involvement in a violent confrontation at one point in his career, and lived through conflict in many contexts but he also frequently worked as a peace maker. Policies he helped shape on issues such as church union, indigenous leadership, representation by lay people and a wider role for women continue to influence Uniting Church in Australia and churches in the Pacific region. His name is still remembered with honour in several parts of the Pacific. Browns marriage to Sarah Lydia Wallis, daughter of pioneer missionaries to New Zealand, was long and rich. Each strengthened the other and they stand side by side in this account.
Harvests, Feasts, and Graves
Author: Ryan SchramPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501711024
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Ryan Schram explores the experiences of living in intercultural and historical conjunctures among Auhelawa people of Papua New Guinea in Harvests, Feasts, and Graves. In this ethnographic investigation, Schram ponders how Auhelawa question the meaning of social forms and through this questioning seek paths to establish a new sense of their collective self. Harvests, Feasts, and Graves describes the ways in which Auhelawa people, and by extension many others, produce knowledge of themselves as historical subjects in the aftermath of diverse and incomplete encounters with Christianity, capitalism, and Western values. Using the contemporary setting of Papua New Guinea, Schram presents a new take on essential topics and foundational questions of social and cultural anthropology. If, as Marx writes, "the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living," Harvests, Feasts, and Graves asks: Which history weighs the most? And how does the weight of history become salient as a ground for subjective consciousness? Taking cues from postcolonial theory and indigenous studies, Schram rethinks the "ontological turn" in anthropology and develops a new way to think about the nature of historical consciousness. Rather than seeing the present as either tragedy or farce, Schram argues that contemporary historical consciousness is produced through reflexive sociality. Like all societies, Auhelawa is located in an intercultural conjuncture, yet their contemporary life is not a story of worlds colliding, but a shattered mirror in which multiple Auhelawa subjectivities are possible.
Methodism in Australia
Author: Glen O'BrienPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317097092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Methodism has played a major role in all areas of public life in Australia but has been particularly significant for its influence on education, social welfare, missions to Aboriginal people and the Pacific Islands and the role of women. Drawing together a team of historical experts, Methodism in Australia presents a critical introduction to one of the most important religious movements in Australia's settlement history and beyond. Offering ground-breaking regional studies of the development of Methodism, this book considers a broad range of issues including Australian Methodist religious experience, worship and music, Methodist intellectuals, and missions to Australia and the Pacific.
The catalogue of the Melbourne public library. Suppl. catalogue
Author: Melbourne state libr. of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The Supplemental Catalogue of the Melbourne Public Library for 1865
Author: Melbourne Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Subject-index of the Books in the Author Catalogues for the Years 1869-1895
Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Bibliography of Australia
Author: John Alexander FergusonPublisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642990440
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
General Catalogue of ... Free Public Library
Author: Auckland Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description