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Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920

By Jane Samson

Book information

Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2017
ISBN
9781467448833, 9780802875358, 2017026282
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
639 kB (653955 bytes)
Series
Studies in the History of Christian Missions (SHCM)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-02 21:07:36
Christian Nonfiction; History; Religion & Spiritua

Description

Race and Redemption is the latest volume in the Studies in the History of Christian Missions series, which explores the significant, yet sometimes controversial, impact of Christian missions around the world. In this historical examination of the encounter between British missionaries and people in the Pacific Islands, Jane Samson reveals the paradoxical yet symbiotic nature of the two stances that the missionaries adopted—"othering" and "brothering." She shows how good and bad intentions were tangled up together and how some blind spots remained even as others were overcome. Arguing that gender was as important a category in the story as race, Samson paints a complex picture of the interactions between missionaries and native peoples—and the ways in which perspectives shaped by those encounters have endured.

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