A mission divided colonialism, race and culture 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
Otros Autores: Close-Barry, Kirstie, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press 2015.
Colección:Open Research Library ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44548187*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Foundations for an Indo-Fijian Methodist Church in Fiji
  • A National Church Built in 'Primitive' Culture: Communalism, Chiefs and Coins
  • Theories of Culture: Responding to Emergent Nationalisms
  • Indigenous Agrarian Commerce: Yeoman Claims to Soil
  • Leadership with Limitations: Constrained Leadership for Indo-Fijian and Fijian Methodists in the 1930s
  • Colonialism and Culture Throughout the Pacific War
  • Defining the Path to Independence
  • Devolution in a Divided Mission
  • Disunity: Failed Efforts at Integration.