Mission, church, and sect in Oceania
By: edited by James A. Boutilier, Daniel T. Hughes, Sharon W. Tiffany.
Contributors: Boutilier, James A.; Hughes, Daniel T.; Tiffany, Sharon W.; Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania.
Series: ASAO monograph ;; no. 6
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Missions -- Oceania -- Congresses.; Christianity -- Oceania -- Congresses.; Oceania -- Church history -- Congresses.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [465]-496.
Reprint. Originally published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1978.
"Co-published by arrangement with the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania"--Verso t.p.
Papers from an ASAO symposium on missionary activity in Oceania held at Stuart, Fla., Mar. 1975.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Missionary occasions / Kenelm O. L. Burridge Foreign missionaries in the Pacific islands during the twentieth century / Charles W. Forman Mutual biases of anthropologists and missionaries / Daniel T. Hughes The impact of south sea islands missionaries on Melanesia / Sione Latukefu Civilizing the heathen: missionaries and social change in the Mortlock islands / James D. Nason Missions, administration, and education in the Solomon Islands, 1893-1942 / James A. Boutilier Competition for Bacgu souls: mission rivalry on Malaita, Solomon Islands / Harold M. Ross Mission, chuch and sect: three types of religious committment in the Torres Strait islands / Jeremy Beckett Intercultural communication in the Western Solomons: the Methodist Mission and the emergence of the Christian Fellowship Church / Frances Harwood Indigenization as a missionary goal in the Caroline and Marshall Islands / Francix X. Hezel The impact of Vatican II on the Marists in Oceania / Gerald A. Arbuckle The teachings of Father Marino: Christianity on Tobi Atoll / Peter W. Black Christianity in Kaliai: response to missionization in north-wst New Britian / Dorothy Ayers Counts After the missionaries came: denominational diversity in the Tonga Islands / Shulamit R. Decktor Korn The politics of denominational organization in Samoa / Sharon W. Tiffany Conclusion: retrospect and prospect / Sione Latukefu