Author: Joeli MbuluPublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Joel Bulu
Author: Joeli MbuluJoel Bulu
Author: Joeli MbuluPublisher:
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Missions and Empire
Author: Norman EtheringtonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191531064
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion - belying the image of Christianity as the 'white man's religion'.
Religions of Melanesia
Author: Garry TrompfPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1567206662
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Melansia boasts over one-quarter of the world's distinct religions and presents the most complex religious panorama on earth. The region is famous for its unusual new religious movements that have adapted traditional beliefs to modernity in surprising ways. As the first bibliographical survey to comprehensively cover the entire region, Religions of Melanesia is an invaluable research aid for anyone interested in this growing field. Trompf's work is a complete listing of scholarly publications and provides readable and concise descriptions that will clearly guide the researcher toward the most relevant sources. This survey covers 2188 entries organized topically and regionally. Trompf covers such subjects as traditional and modern belief systems and the emergent indigenous Christianity that has taken root. Regional coverage includes Irian Jaya, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
South Pacific Literature
Author: SubramaniPublisher: [email protected]
ISBN: 9789820200807
Category : Islands of the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Taming Cannibals
Author: Patrick BrantlingerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801462649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet the "civilizing mission" was viewed as the ultimate justification for imperialism. Similarly, the supposedly unshakeable certainty of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority was routinely undercut by widespread fears about racial degeneration through contact with "lesser" races or concerns that Anglo-Saxons might be superseded by something superior—an even "fitter" or "higher" race or species. Brantlinger traces the development of those fears through close readings of a wide range of texts—including Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians by James Bonwick, The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold, She by H. Rider Haggard, and The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. Throughout the wide-ranging, capacious, and rich Taming Cannibals, Brantlinger combines the study of literature with sociopolitical history and postcolonial theory in novel ways.
The Southern World
Author: Robert YoungPublisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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The Herald of Peace and International Arbitration
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Minutes of the Methodist Conferences, from the First, Held in London, by the Late Rev. John Wesley, A.M., in the Year 1744
Author: Wesleyan Methodist Church. ConferencePublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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