Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835 1917

Author : Margaret Reeson
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921862984

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Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917 by Margaret Reeson Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Matthew Publications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01
Category : Church records on microfilm
ISBN : 1857112822

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Pacific Island Culture & Society by Adam Matthew Publications Pdf

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Author : George Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : CORNELL:31924008579413

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George Brown, D. D., Pioneer-missionary and Explorer by George Brown Pdf

Author : George Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041292132

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George Brown, D.D. by George Brown Pdf

Author : Helen Bethea Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Missionaries
ISBN : UCSD:31822035717644

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Gathering for God by Helen Bethea Gardner Pdf

"Originally from the north of England, Brown worked as a Wesleyan Methodist missionary in Samoa (1860) and the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea (1875). In the 1880s, he became general secretary of the Australasian Methodist Overseas Mission, a post he held for more than twenty years and which involved further travel in the Pacific. His colourful life provides a case study of the role of Christian missionaries at this time."--Back cover.

Author : Jehu J. Hanciles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191506970

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The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume IV by Jehu J. Hanciles Pdf

The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in England as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined by diocesan episcopacy, the Book of Common Prayer, the Thirty-Nine Articles, and royal supremacy, but then follows those traditions as they spread beyond England-and also traces newer traditions that emerged downstream in other parts of the world from earlier forms of Dissent. Secondly, it does the same for the doctrines, church practices, stances toward state and society, attitudes toward Scripture, and characteristic patterns of organization that also originated in earlier English Dissent, but that have often defined a trajectory of influence independent ecclesiastical organizations. Volume IV examines the globalization of dissenting traditions in the twentieth century. During this period, Protestant Dissent achieved not only its widest geographical reach but also the greatest genealogical distance from its point of origin. Covering Africa, Asia, the Middle East, America, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific, this collection provides detailed examination of Protestant Dissent as a globalizing movement. Contributors probe the radical shifts and complex reconstruction that took place as dissenting traditions encountered diverse cultures and took root in a multitude of contexts, many of which were experiencing major historical change at the same time. This authoritative overview unambiguously reveals that 'Dissent' was transformed as it travelled.

Author : David Russell Lawrence
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781925022025

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The Naturalist and His 'beautiful Islands' by David Russell Lawrence Pdf

‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singlehandedly. His career in the Pacific extended beyond the Solomon Islands. He worked briefly for the Western Pacific High Commission in Fiji, was a temporary consul in Samoa, and travelled as a Government Agent on a small labour vessel returning indentured workers to the Gilbert Islands. As an independent naturalist he made three successful expeditions to the islands, and even climbed Mt Popomanaseu, the highest mountain in Guadalcanal. However, his natural history collection of over 20,000 specimens, held by the British Museum of Natural History, has not been comprehensively examined. The British Solomon Islands Protectorate was established in order to control the Pacific Labour Trade and to counter possible expansion by French and German colonialists. It remaining an impoverished, largely neglected protectorate in the Western Pacific whose economic importance was large-scale copra production, with its copra considered the second-worst in the world. This book is a study of Woodford, the man, and what drove his desire to establish a colonial protectorate in the Solomon Islands. In doing so, it also addresses ongoing issues: not so much why the independent state broke down, but how imperfectly it was put together in the first place.

Author : Hilary Howes,Tristen Jones,Matthew Spriggs
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781760464875

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts by Hilary Howes,Tristen Jones,Matthew Spriggs Pdf

Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.

Author : Upolu Lumā Vaai,Mark A. Lamport
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666720976

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Restoring Identities by Upolu Lumā Vaai,Mark A. Lamport Pdf

In a sense, Oceania can be considered a microcosm of World Christianity. Within this region are many of the same observable trends on the global level that impact Christian life, faith, and witness. The geography of Oceania--the "liquid continent"--is unique. Christianity arrived in Australia and New Zealand in the late eighteenth century via British colonial powers. Indigenous Aboriginal peoples, Torres Strait Islanders, and Māori peoples were dispossessed of land, property, rights, and dignity. Christianity grew by migration and conversion (not always voluntary), and over time became tightly intertwined with culture. In the twentieth century, rapid secularization moved Christianity into the private sphere, and by 2020 Christian affiliation had dropped from 97 percent to 57 percent. However, the history of Christianity in the Pacific Islands--Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia--is quite different. Christianity arrived via Protestant and Catholic missionaries between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries and grew substantially in the twentieth century largely due to indigenous Christian efforts. Islanders brought Christianity to neighboring islands, indigenous theologies developed, and churches gradually separated from their Western mission founders. One of the great "success stories" of World Christianity is Papua New Guinea, which grew from just 4 percent Christian in 1900 to 95 percent in 2020. However, growth is never the entire story. Violence against women is endemic in Papua New Guinea and is often combined with accusations of witchcraft. An estimated 59 percent of women have experienced physical or sexual violence in their lifetime (and 48 percent in the last year). As Christianity continues its shift to the global South, it becomes increasingly critical to heed the experiences, perspectives, and theologies of Christians, particularly women, in the Pacific Islands.

Author : Kevin George Hovey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532654213

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Guiding Light by Kevin George Hovey Pdf

Rev. Dr. Alan Tippett was arguably one of the leading missiologists of the twentieth century. Through his prolific pen, poignant observations, and powerful insights he significantly influenced mission research and activity in the period of the 1960s to 1980s. This was particularly facilitated through his research, writing, and teaching at the Institute of Church Growth, Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission, and his inaugural editorship of the American Society of Missiology's journal, Missiology: An International Review. Yet for those who did not know Tippett's material well, the very specific nature of his research and writing limited the influence of his insights. For example, without already knowing the pertinent content, why would a missionary to Thailand think of reading Tippett's Solomon Islands Christianity? However, according to Doug Priest, editor of a number of Tippett's posthumous publications, this volume has "done what even Tippett himself did not do, and that is to capture the key features of his missiology in one volume." So Guiding Light functions as an in-depth overview of "The Essential Alan Tippett." I can attest that the nature of Tippett's material continued to inform and inspire me throughout the eleven years of the research and writing of this study.

Author : Martin Fuchs,Antje Linkenbach,Martin Mulsow,Bernd-Christian Otto,Rahul Bjørn Parson,Jörg Rüpke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110580938

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Religious Individualisation by Martin Fuchs,Antje Linkenbach,Martin Mulsow,Bernd-Christian Otto,Rahul Bjørn Parson,Jörg Rüpke Pdf

This volume brings together key findings of the long-term research project ‘Religious Individualisation in Historical Perspective’ (Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, Erfurt University). Combining a wide range of disciplinary approaches, methods and theories, the volume assembles over 50 contributions that explore and compare processes of religious individualisation in different religious environments and historical periods, in particular in Asia, the Mediterranean, and Europe from antiquity to the recent past. Contrary to standard theories of modernisation, which tend to regard religious individualisation as a specifically modern or early modern as well as an essentially Western or Christian phenomenon, the chapters reveal processes of religious individualisation in a large variety of non-Western and pre-modern scenarios. Furthermore, the volume challenges prevalent views that regard religions primarily as collective phenomena and provides nuanced perspectives on the appropriation of religious agency, the pluralisation of religious options, dynamics of de-traditionalisation and privatisation, the development of elaborated notions of the self, the facilitation of religious deviance, and on the notion of dividuality.

Author : Glen O'Brien,Hilary M. Carey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317097099

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Methodism in Australia by Glen O'Brien,Hilary M. Carey Pdf

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.

Author : GEORGE. BROWN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033135429

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GEORGE BROWN, D. D. PIONEER-MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. by GEORGE. BROWN Pdf

Author : Brij V. Lal,Kate Fortune
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082482265X

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The Pacific Islands by Brij V. Lal,Kate Fortune Pdf

An encyclopaedia of information on major aspects of Pacific life, including the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society and culture. The CD-ROM contains hyperlinks between section titles and sections, a library of all the maps in the encyclopaedia, and a photo library.

Author : George Brown
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0666622663

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George Brown, D. D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer, an Autobiography (Classic Reprint) by George Brown Pdf

Excerpt from George Brown, D. D. Pioneer-Missionary and Explorer, an Autobiography I have written this account of my life very unwillingly, in deference to the oft-repeated wishes of my many friends and of the Conference to which I belong. I have endeavoured, however, to make it in some measure a history of the principal events in the Mission Districts with which I have been more immediately connected. My difficulty has been to condense the account into reasonable limits, and in doing this I have had to omit some details which might not interest the general reader, as well as particulars of the manners and customs, folk lore, and other matters of interest to students of anthropology and ethnology. These, however, I hope to be able to give in a separate volume in the not distant future. Descriptions of several collections and specimens of natural history which I forwarded to England will be found in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for the years 1877 to 1881. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.