A mission divided : race, culture & colonialism in Fiji's Methodist Mission

A mission divided race, culture & colonialism in Fiji's Methodist Mission

This book provides insight into the long process of decolonisation within the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia, a colonial institution that operated in the British colony of Fiji. The mission was a site of work for Europeans, Fijians and Indo-Fijians, but each community operated separately...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Australian National University, issuing body (issuing body)
Otros Autores: Close-Barry, Kirstie, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, ACT : ANU Press 2016
[2015]
Colección:Open Access e-Books
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Materias:
Methodist Church of Australasia.
Methodist Church > Missions.
Christianity and culture > Fiji.
Fiji > Politics and government > 19th century.
empire studies
methodist missions
pacific nationalism
fiji
Colonialism
Ethnic groups in Europe
Fijians
Indian people
Indo-Fijians
London Missionary Society
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432609706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Foundations for an Indo-Fijian Methodist Church in Fiji
  • 2. A National Church Built in 'Primitive' Culture: Communalism, Chiefs and Coins
  • 3. Theories of Culture: Responding to Emergent Nationalisms
  • 4. Indigenous Agrarian Commerce: Yeoman Claims to Soil
  • 5. Leadership with Limitations: Constrained Leadership for Indo‑Fijian and Fijian Methodists in the 1930s
  • 6. Colonialism and Culture Throughout the Pacific War
  • 7. Defining the Path to Independence
  • 8. Devolution in a Divided Mission
  • 9. Disunity: Failed Efforts at Integration.

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