Author: Rufus Anderson
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: William Ellis
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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Author: Patricia Grimshaw
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824879139
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Twenty-three-year-old Laura Fish Judd left rural Massachusetts in 1827 for the Hawaiian islands, one of eighty young American women who enlisted in the effort to Christianize the islands between 1819 and 1850. Only a month before, after receiving a marriage proposal from a young physician in need of a wife to qualify for mission service, she had written in her diary: "'The die is cast.' I have in the strength of the Lord, consented Rebecca-like--I WILL GO, yes, I will leave friends, native land, everything for Jesus." Laura Judd and other ambitious young women consented to hasty marriages with virtual strangers to achieve their goal of carrying Christ's message to the heathen. As Patricia Grimshaw's compelling study makes clear, these women were driven by a desire for important, independent life-work that went well beyond their expected roles as dutiful wives. The ambitions, hopes, and fears of those eighty pioneer women make a poignant and fascinating story. But Paths of Duty does more than recount the experiences of a group of individuals. Grimshaw shows how the mission women reflected the larger society of which they were part, and through their story shed new light on the role of American Protestant mission in Hawaii. Although the women's public role in mission work was limited, they were highly influential in their daily and seemingly mundane interactions with Hawaiian women. The American women's ethnocentricity made them quite incapable of appreciating Hawaiian culture on its own terms, but their notions of proper femininity and female behavior were effectively transmitted to Hawaiian girls and women. Paths of Duty provides a deeper understanding of this neglected process of acculturation in the islands and its eventual implications for Hawaii's entry into the American sphere of influence.

Author: William Ellis
Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Author: American Missionary Association
Publisher:
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Includes the proceedings of the United Foreign Missionary Society.

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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Vols. 13-62 include abridged annual reports and proceedings of the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, 1869-1908; v. 38-62 include abridged annual reports of the Society's Executive committee, 1883/84-1907/1908.

Author: Joseph Tracy
Publisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Phil Corr
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666713953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 761

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In this book Phil Corr provides a tour de force by writing for both the biography reader and the scholar. In this hybrid work he vividly portrays the life of Titus Coan, "the pen painter," while also filling gaps in the scholarship. These gaps include: the volume itself (no full-length published book has previously been written on Titus Coan) and the following chapters--"Patagonia," "Peace," and "Other Religions." Using the unpublished thesis by Margaret Ehlke and many other primary and secondary sources, he significantly deepens the understanding of Coan in many areas. This book is presented to the future reader for the purposes of edification and increasing the scholarship of this man who lived an incredible life during incredible times.

Author: Vaughn J. Walston
Publisher: William Carey Library
ISBN: 9780878086092
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Collection of articles about the history of missions from an African-American perspective.