Author: Christopher LethbridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Otaki (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The wounded lion : Octavius Hadfield 1814 - 1904
Author: Christopher LethbridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Otaki (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The Wounded Lion
Author: Christopher LethbridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780908563524
Category : Maori (New Zealand people)
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Christianity, Modernity and Culture
Author: John StenhousePublisher: ATF Press
ISBN: 9781920691332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, New Zealand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed religion would wane. Secularization--the fading into insignificance of religion--would distinguish the modern era from previous ages. Until the 1980s, only a handful of scholars around the world raised serious empirical and theoretical questions about a Grand Theory that had become central to the self-understanding of the social sciences and of the modern world. Heated debates since then, and the unmistakable resurgence of world religions, have raised fundamental questions about the empirical and theoretical adequacy of secularization theory, and especially about how far it applies outside Europe. This volume revisits New Zealand history when secularization is no longer taken for granted as the Only Big Story that illuminates the country's social and cultural history. Contributors explore how New Zealanders' diverse religious and spiritual traditions have shaped practical, everyday concerns in politics, racial and ethnic relations, science, the environment, family life, gender relations, and other domains.
The Best Man who Ever Served the Crown?
Author: Ray FargherPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864735607
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Born in Tiree in the Scottish Hebrides in 1820, Donald McLean came to New Zealand in 1840. HIs first government appointment was as Sub-Protector of Aborigines in 1844, and he was to have a major public role until his death in 1877, as Land Purchase Commissioner, Native Secretary, Government Agent oon the East Coast, Native Minister, and major landowner in his own right. McLean was highly respected by Maori for his knowledge of Te Reo and respect for rank and protocol, and was closely involved in land dealings in the Taranaki and elsewhere, first with the free consent of the Maori, but as resistance to land sales increased he resorted to engineering their consent."--Cover.
Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions
Author: Gerald H. AndersonPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802846808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
"The book also features cross-references throughout, a bibliography accompanying each entry, an elaborate appendix listing biographies according to particular categories of interest, and a comprehensive index."--BOOK JACKET.
The Conversion of the Maori
Author: Timothy YatesPublisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 0802869459
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Conversion of the Maori is the latest volume in the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, which explores the significant, yet often contested, impact of Christian missions around the world. Timothy Yates introduces the history of missions among the Maori people of New Zealand in the mid-1800s. On the basis of painstaking archival research, Yates charts the change in society and religion over the course of nearly thirty years in detail, describing the historical development of the conversion process. The Conversion of the Maori is ecumenical and historically informed to give a balanced presentation of the conversion of a whole people.
I Got His Blood on Me
Author: Lawrence PatchettPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 0864738307
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The short stories in this collection follow characters that are plucked away from their normal lives to face wildly abnormal situations. An old coachman must face the death of his passenger; a missionary loses a colleague in the swollen waters of the Turakina River; a cranky ghost wreaks havoc on a Kapiti train; and a bloodied figure travels through time. From a reimagined history to a future where holograms walk the streets, these stories traverse time and genre to explore adventurous frontiers in the past, present, and future.
Empire and the Making of Native Title
Author: Bain AttwoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108809502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
This book provides a new approach to the historical treatment of indigenous peoples' sovereignty and property rights in Australia and New Zealand. By shifting attention from the original European claims of possession to a comparison of the ways in which British players treated these matters later, Bain Attwood not only reveals some startling similarities between the Australian and New Zealand cases but revises the long-held explanations of the differences. He argues that the treatment of the sovereignty and property rights of First Nations was seldom determined by the workings of moral principle, legal doctrine, political thought or government policy. Instead, it was the highly particular historical circumstances in which the first encounters between natives and Europeans occurred and colonisation began that largely dictated whether treaties of cession were negotiated, just as a bitter political struggle determined the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi and ensured that native title was made in New Zealand.
Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire
Author: Kenton StoreyPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774829508
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, fear of Indigenous uprisings spread across the British Empire and nibbled at the edges of settler societies. Publicly admitting to this anxiety, however, would have gone counter to Victorian notions of racial superiority. In Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire Kenton Storey opens a window on this time by comparing newspaper coverage in the 1850s and 1860s in the colonies of New Zealand and Vancouver Island. Challenging the idea that there was a decline in the popularity of humanitarianism across the British Empire in the mid-nineteenth century, he demonstrates how government officials and newspaper editors appropriated humanitarian rhetoric as a flexible political language. Whereas humanitarianism had previously been used by Christian evangelists to promote Indigenous rights, during this period it became a popular means to justify the expansion of settlers’ access to land and to promote racial segregation, all while insisting on the “protection” of Indigenous peoples.
Racial Crossings
Author: Damon Ieremia SalesaPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199604150
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Moving away from conventional theories about Victorian attitudes towards race, Salesa focuses on an array of equally influential, yet seemingly opposite, ideas where racial crossing was seen as a means of improvement, a way to manage racial conflict or create new societies, or even a way to promote the rule of law.