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A mission divided : race, culture & colonialism in Fiji's Methodist Mission / Kirstie Close-Barry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Close-Barry, Kirstie, author.
- Series:
- Open Access e-Books
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Methodist Church of Australasia.
- Methodist Church--Missions.
- Methodist Church.
- Christianity and culture--Fiji.
- Christianity and culture.
- Fiji--Politics and government--19th century.
- Fiji.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- ANU Press 2016
- Acton, ACT : ANU E Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, as the mission was divided along ethnic lines in 1901. This book outlines the colonial concepts of race and culture, as well as antagonism over land and labour, that were used to justify this separation. Recounting the stories told by the mission's leadership, including missionaries and ministers, to its grassroots membership, this book draws on archival and ethnographic research to reveal the emergence of ethno-nationalisms in Fiji, the legacies of which are still being managed in the post-colonial state today.
- Contents:
- 1. Foundations for an Indo-Fijian Methodist Church in Fiji
- 2. A National Church Built in 'Primitive' Culture: Communalism, Chiefs and Coins
- 3. Theories of Culture: Responding to Emergent Nationalisms
- 4. Indigenous Agrarian Commerce: Yeoman Claims to Soil
- 5. Leadership with Limitations: Constrained Leadership for Indo‑Fijian and Fijian Methodists in the 1930s
- 6. Colonialism and Culture Throughout the Pacific War
- 7. Defining the Path to Independence
- 8. Devolution in a Divided Mission
- 9. Disunity: Failed Efforts at Integration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781925022865
- 1925022862
- OCLC:
- 924407015
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.26530/OAPEN_603166
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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