| Description |
xxxvii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Pacific world series ; v. 17 |
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The Pacific world : lands, peoples and history of the Pacific, 1500-1900 ; 17 |
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Pacific world ; v. 17
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Pacific world series ; v. 17
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. The Islamic Period. 1. Islam in the Netherlands East Indies / Radan Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo -- 2. The role of Islam in the political development of Malaysia / Gordon Means -- 3. Filipinos before the Spanish conquest possessed a well-ordered and well-thought-out religion / Gregorio F. Zaide -- Pt. 2. The Iberian Catholic Period. 4. Merchants and missionaries: a theologian's view on clerical involvement in the Galleon trade / Nicolas Cushne -- 5. French Catholic missionaries in Japan in the Bakumatsu and early Meiji periods / Jean-Pierre Lehman -- 6. Did Jesus Christ really come to China? / Claudia von Collani -- 7. Some observations on mission methods and native reactions in 16th-century new Spain / Stafford Poole -- 8. Shamans and Padres: the religion of the southern California mission Indians / Martha Voght -- 9. The Philippine inquisition: a survey / F. Delor Angeles -- Pt. 3. Ages of the Jewish Diaspora. 10. The narrative of Aharon Levi alias Antonio de Montezinos / tr. by E. Lindo -- 11. Delving into Israelite religion of Kaifeng: the patriotic scholar Shi Jungxun and his study of the origins of the Plucking of the Sinews Sect of Henan / Kong Xianyi -- Pt. 4. Two Centuries of Russian Orthodoxy. 12. The Orthodox Church and Orthodox Christian mission from an Alaskan perspective / Michael Oleksa -- 13. Russian Orthodox brotherhoods among the Tinglit: missionary goals and native responses / Sergei Kan -- |
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Pt. 5. The Protestant Period. 14. Patterns of ministry in Methodism in Singapore and Malaysia / Theodore Doraisamy -- 15. A successful crusade to China: the Home Board and the China Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1848-1900 / Xiaoguang Xu -- 16. 'Our duty to convert men-eaters and cannibals': German Lutheran missionaries and their work in Australia and New Guinea before 1914 / Jürgen Tampke -- 17. The Mormon message in the context of the Maori culture / Peter Lineham -- 18. The impact of missionary Christianity upon marginalized ethnic minorities: the case of the Hmong / Nicholas Tapp. Pt. 6. The Asian Migration Period. 19. Asian Indian immigration patterns: the origins of the Sikh community in California / Juan L. Gonzales Jr. -- 20. Phelan's cemetery: religion in the urbanizing west, 1850-69, in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento / Steven Avella -- 21. At Encinitas in California: the years 1940-51 / Paramahamsa Yogananda -- 22. Journey to the far west: Chinese Buddhism in America / Irene Lin |
| Summary |
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious cultural exchanges around the Pacific in the period 1500-1900, relating these to economic and political development and to the expansion of communication across the area. It brings together twenty-two pieces, from diaries of religious exiles and missionary field observations, to studies from a variety of academic disciplines |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Missionaries -- Pacific Area -- History.
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Missions -- Pacific Area -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005023
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Pacific Area http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096445 -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007663
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| Author |
Storch, Tanya.
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| LC no. |
2005041990 |
| ISBN |
0754606678 (hbk.) |
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9780754606673 (hbk.) |
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