Race and redemption
Subtitle: British missionaries encounter Pacific peoples, 1797-1920
By: Jane Samson
Series: Studies in the history of Christian missions; Studies in the history of Christian missions
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Michigan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780802875358
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: British Missions; History
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one; title: Anthropologies; title: Networks; title: Othering and brothering; title: Part two; title: Translations; title: Contemporary ancestors?; title: Religion; title: Engendering difference.